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I'm always looking for the next challenge.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Challenges
Next
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There are very few people who do what I do.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Few People
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Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Lasts
Painting
Sculpture
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I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Intent
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You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Drawing
Illustration
Before
Drawings
Thousands
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I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Heart
Mind
My Heart
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At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Driven
One Time
Pieces
Studios
Economically
Studio
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Moved
People
Powerful
Tears
How Many People
Powerful People
Studio
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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 / Artist
Gone
Illustration
Tired
Commission
Magazine
Page
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Air
Bronze
Clay
Flying
Capturing
Putting
Split
Via
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My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Art
Facility
Fine
Goal
Significance
Soul
Fine Art
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Jobs
Conditions
Creating
Want
Success Is
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Capture
Essence
Sculpture
Interior
Split
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There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Able
Collectors
Connections
Differences
Work Daily Me
Admirers
Basis
Connection
Daily
Daily Basis
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Drudgery
Enormous
Mold
Work Me People
Work Me Hands
Sculptures
Stroke
Task
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I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Art
Bronze
Collectors
Creating
Legacy
Particular
Selling
Years
Interested
Collector
Last
Passed
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Knowledge
Zero
Anatomy
Grasping
Inside
Complete
Happening
Memory
Photographic
Moment
Outside
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I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Chuck
Designer
Graphic
Saved
Underwear
Wrong Direction
Life Me My Life
Life Your Me
Direction
Front
Gave
Headed
Wear
Uncle
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Capture
Collecting
Life Art I Am
Collect
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I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Dozen
Fascinated
Models
Phenomenon
Productions
Athletes
Me Live New
Incredible
Pose
World-Wide
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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.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Nba
Olympics
Painter
Sculpting
Illustrator
Trained
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Art
Jobs
Clients
School
Bought
Center
Custom
Half Years
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Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Opportunity
Able
Charity Work
Children
Community
Dollars
Feels
Helping Others
Millions
Supporter
Work Great Opportunity
Work Great Always
Charities
Donated
Gives
Help
Help Others
Millions Of Dollars
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China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
Richard Macdonald / Artist
Art
Artistic Expression
China
Creative Expression
Determination
Exposing
Force
Greater
Struggle
Triumph
Dreamed
Inspires
Opens
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