Quotes by Matthew Barney - Page 1

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Skins
Tissues
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I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Discipline
Ideas
Thinking
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A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Sports
Abstract
Anchors
Order
Scene
Anchor
Angles
Broadcast
Mimic
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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it
Matthew Barney / Artist
Character
Doe
Ego
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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Allowing
Stomach
Throw
Wanting
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Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body
Matthew Barney / Artist
Body
Comedy
Thinking
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Relationship
Comedy
Gravity
Acts
Interested
Physical
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Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Character
Heavy
Icons
Physicality
Roles
Brings
Gravitate
Towards
Stands
Types
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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Driven
Hunger
Sexually
Consumer
Digestive
Project
Producer
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Car
Connections
Literal
Pregnancy
Vehicle
Helps
Needing
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[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Narrative
Sculpture
Stories
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I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to be that, especially when there's lyrics in the music.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Thinking
Two
Way
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney / Artist
Art
New York
Interesting
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Matthew Barney / Artist
Art World
Landscape
Art Work World
Crashed
Galleries
Work Art World
Graduating
Interesting Thing
Normally
Stock
Stock Market
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