American - Sculptor | 1946 -
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
Richard MacDonald
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Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
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I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
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I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.
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These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
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There are very few people who do what I do.
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I'm always looking for the next challenge.
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I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
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I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.
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I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
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I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.
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