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Bruce Nauman Quotes

American - Sculptor | December 6, 1941 -

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

Excuses You Want Really

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

World Artist True Mystic True Artist

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Art I Am Become Concerned Supposed

I'll talk. You'll listen.

You Talk Listen

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Art You Artist Done Honest Only

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

Interesting Questions Result Choose

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.

Start Finding Feeling Way Mean Task

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Time Humor People Think Meaning

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.

Alone Time Start Enough You Way

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.

Beautiful Time Purpose Building Gate

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.

Work Time Looking Thinking Drawing

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

Work Interesting Questions Choose

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