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Bruce Nauman [1941-0] American

Rank: 103
Sculptor, Artist

Bruce Nauman is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.

Anger, Humor

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.		101
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.	Humor	102
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.		103
And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.		104
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.		105
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.		106
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.		107
Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.	Anger	108
I'll talk. You'll listen.		109
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.		110
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.		111
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.		112
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.		113
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.		114
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.		115
I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.		116
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.		117
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.		118

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