Fritz Wotruba

Quotes

• “My desire to work is not stimulated by the classical proportions of Greek architecture, but by functional silos and hangars.. .The confusion of places, cluttered with art and culture chokes my inspiration. What stimulates and interests me is the natural noise of a busy city, and the practical lay-out of a harbor or factory which has come into being without consideration of any aesthetic principles.”
• “I dream of a sculpture in which landscape, architecture and city are one. It might be a city like Marseille, a city steaming with heat which suddenly transmogrifies. I becomes an immense piece of sculpture, a gigantic figure, made up of white blocks and segmented by flat, horizontal terraces, arranged in a bare and motionless landscape. (circa 1969)”
• “Stone is the only true material for the sculptor. All others, tin, iron bars, tin cans and coiled springs are merely poor substitutes”
• “I am concerned with the figure.. .Equilibrium, unity.”
• “At the present time the artists stands alone.. ..no ideology can be of help to him.”
• “What nevertheless subsists is the desire of an absolute ideal form, a form which can adapt itself to any setting and to any scale.”

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