10 quotes
Time is what you have left.. ..you just march with it and use it the best you can.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
The paintings got sculptural because the forms got more complicated. I've learned to weave in and out.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
I know what I want, but it's physically beyond me now. I can work on what I can handle. It's a playoff between the object and my physical limits.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. Anyway, the real point is that the things that don't seem to me to be pictorially informed are not so interesting to me.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
People say that the paintings are always big because they're striving for effect, but they're also big so that I don't trip over myself, so that I have room to work, and people can come in and be comfortable.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
When people still talk about art that I made in the 60's— most of them never saw it, and they never lived through it, and they don't have a clue about it. The idea that they know what minimalism is is absurd. I don't know what minimalism is!
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
I hate to say this. ..it's made to order. Then, I disorder it a little bit or, I should say, I reorder it. I wouldn't be so presumptuous to claim that I had the ability to disorder it. I wish I did.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
[Asked: "Is that one of the reasons you went into sculpture?"] I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
They are more complex to begin with, but their organization, the way they end up being put together, isn't that different. You can't shake your own sensibility. No matter what the concept is; the artist's eye decides when it's right ... which is a notion of sensibility.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)
They just want to get a handle on you and the idea, and that's enough. Some people sense more but they don't really get into it because it's going one step too far. But the whole idea of making art is to be open, to be generous, and absorb the viewer and absorb yourself, to let them go into it. I have to go into all those places in order to make it work.
Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)