Deborah Butterfield quotes
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“In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.”
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“The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.”
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“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”
-- Deborah Butterfield -
“In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.”
-- Deborah Butterfield -
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“What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?”
-- Deborah Butterfield
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“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
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“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Source : "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 58), 1957.
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