Anthony Caro Quotes
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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Let the work speak for itself.
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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
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Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
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Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.
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So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
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I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.