Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.