Bruce Nauman American Sculptor Quotations

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.

I gave a certain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then after that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed.

If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.

The idea being there so that it became almost like an object that was there, that you could go back and visit whenever you wanted to.