Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Naumanis an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMultimedia Artist
Date of Birth6 December 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Bruce Nauman quotes about
excuse-you want no-excuses
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
american-sculptor building case corner fence hang needed ranch stretch
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
american-sculptor dirty ground keeping letting lie tools
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.
humor people time
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
american-sculptor amount artists certain gave shot uncommon
I gave a certain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then after that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed.
amateur american-sculptor
If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.
almost american-sculptor became object visit whenever
The idea being there so that it became almost like an object that was there, that you could go back and visit whenever you wanted to.