I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being … - John Chamberlain

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I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.

John Chamberlain

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount. . . Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed. . . . I believe that common materials are the best materials.

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I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

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Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

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A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

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