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Richard Hunt

30 quotes

“A sculptor can be thought of as the sort of person who can reduce impressions of things, responses, and ideas about things into sculptural forms.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1957: The Sculpture of Richard Hunt (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 13–15
“The creation of a sculpture can be considered the process by which a sculptor demonstrates to himself whether or not he is creating a sculpture.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1967: The Sculpture of Richard Hunt (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 13–15
“Everything that exists, natural or man made, contains some sculptural quality or property.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1967: The Sculpture of Richard Hunt (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 13–15
“One hopes to see from what has been done, what can be done.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1967: The Sculpture of Richard Hunt (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971), 13–15
“When I enlarge pieces, however, I consider myself to be re-creating the piece in full scale rather than simply copying a small piece. This process of re-creating the piece in the larger scale gives the full-scale work a spontaneity and it keeps the process more open and alive for me as a sculptor through the opportunity to re-experience the ideas that gave rise to the initial subject. . . .”
Richard Hunt first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 (“Work that was initiated . . .”): Samella Lewis, “Richard Hunt,” International Review of African American Art 7, no. 2 (1987): 24–25
“I’ve come to see the different metals as providing a palette. Stain-less steel and aluminum being sort of cool, bronze and Cor-Ten steel being warm and having, obviously, a variety of hues and colors depending on the heat and the patina one might use. This potential of a rich palette of colors and textures contributes to an ease of developing within the metal the kind of ideas that I seem to have.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 (“Work that was initiated . . .”): Samella Lewis, “Richard Hunt,” International Review of African American Art 7, no. 2 (1987): 24–25
“One of the central themes in my work is the reconciliation of the organic and the industrial. I see my work as forming a kind of bridge between what we experience in nature and what we experience from the urban, industrial, technology-driven society we live in. I like to think that within the work that I approach most successfully there is a resolution of the tension between the sense of freedom one has in contemplating nature and the sometimes restrictive, closed feeling engendered by the rigors of the city, the rigors of the industrial environment.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 (“Work that was initiated . . .”): Samella Lewis, “Richard Hunt,” International Review of African American Art 7, no. 2 (1987): 24–25
“The theme of much of my work can be characterized as a fusion or harmonization of the vital tensions existing between dualities, such as the organic and the geometric, the organic and the abstract, or the past and the present, the traditional and the contemporary.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 (“Work that was initiated . . .”): Samella Lewis, “Richard Hunt,” International Review of African American Art 7, no. 2 (1987): 24–25
“Public sculpture responds to the dynamics of a community, or of those in it, who have a use for sculpture. It is this aspect of use, of utility, that gives public sculpture its vital and lively place in the public mind.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1989: Judd Tully and Eleanor Flomenhaft, Richard Hunt (New York: Dorsky Gallery, 1989), 3.
“The challenges utility brings to the sculptor’s mind and art, are as varied as the people and the sites encountered with each commission. As sculptors in our time respond creatively to the challenges that the opportunities for the greater utilization of sculpture impose, we establish links with the greatest traditions in sculpture, and with the largest and most diverse audience sculpture has ever had.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1989: Judd Tully and Eleanor Flomenhaft, Richard Hunt (New York: Dorsky Gallery, 1989), 3.
“I came to see the strength of my own roots and past. The success of the early phase of the civil rights movement, which resulted in voting rights legislation and the breaking down of obvious barriers like segregated drinking fountains and public accommodations, gave one a sense of being able to prevail. What happened after that was chastening, tempering. Another thing, too, is to discover the obvious—that the foundations of American society were built upon the backs of our forefathers.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1998: Jan Garden Castro, “Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul,” Sculpture 17, no. 5 (May–June 1998): 34–39.
“My own use of winged forms in the early ’50s is based on mythological themes, like Icarus and Winged Victory. It’s about, on the one hand, trying to achieve victory or freedom internally. It’s also about investigating ideas of personal and collective freedom. My use of these forms has roots and resonances in the African-American experience and is also a universal symbol. People have always seen birds flying and wished they could fly.”
Richard Hunt first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1998: Jan Garden Castro, “Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul,” Sculpture 17, no. 5 (May–June 1998): 34–39.
“The possibilities of developing the sense of movement in a sculpture are inherent in the material and in the technique, that is to say, forming, bending, stretching, cutting, and twisting metal parts. I like to suggest movement or give an impression of movement.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2011: “Oral History of Richard Hunt,” 70+: Chicago Visual Artist Oral History Archive, Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, The Art Institute of Chicago, interview conducted by Linda L. Kramer and Sandra Bi…
“I like working with my hands, making things and holding things. As a sculptor, I talk about using your head, your heart, and your hands— you think about things, you feel things, and then you use your hands to try to represent what that is, in some material.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2011: “Oral History of Richard Hunt,” 70+: Chicago Visual Artist Oral History Archive, Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, The Art Institute of Chicago, interview conducted by Linda L. Kramer and Sandra Bi…
“Trees have long been my metaphor, symbolic of my inner and outer growth—the taproot delving deep into my conscious and subconscious, the origins of my art, life, and family; peripheral roots branching out into other communities, cultures, a cosmos of interweaving inter- actions; a trunk and branches reaching up and out beyond their tips, leaves, fruit, falling here and there.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“I must, I can, I will provide the physical evidence of my and my family’s having lived upon this Earth, this planet. In the great scheme of things, it is less than a drop in the bucket, but it pleases me to be able to leave this evidence here for a time.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“It is often felt that the lyric or romantic sensibility cannot express itself in iron. The intent of a good deal of my work is to demonstrate that it is a possibility no more foreign to iron than to marble.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“To be creative is to not know what one is doing. The process of creation resolves the imbalance or irritation that initiated the desire to create something. Sculpture is a way of exploring, amplifying, and giving form to my enthusiasms, which are wide-ranging and often intersect each other, technically, emotionally, and spiritually.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Sometimes it is not about making art. Sometimes it is about making statements about culture and history or history and culture with or through art.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“The goal is to wander, wander through the unknown in search of the unknown, all the while leaving your mark. Art can do it all: a life of doing things, a life of making things.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Can the wisdom of the ages serve as the wisdom of the new age, the new millennium? Conventional wisdom is often not subject to or confirmed by independent research. The triumphal road for some can be a Trail of Tears for others.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Does becoming a critical thinker make you ever critical? You must stand somewhere on the stone steps of the drama.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Imagining a world without racial hierarchy, I work as if race did not exist. Look the world over, learn, enjoy, luxuriate, dream large, expansive dreams of a glorious future for ourselves and all mankind. Then, we turn our attention to what is humanly possible.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“I am the thinking person’s sculptor, joining metal manipulation to meaningful expression.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Sculpture is all about hard work and delayed gratification, and mysterious, harmonious, pleasantly jarring, revelatory spatial structures—having good times and bad times at the same time.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“Sculpture is not a self-declaration but a voice of and for my people—over all, a rich fabric; under all, the dynamism of the African American people.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“I am interested more than anything else in being a free person. To me, that means that I can make what I want to make, regardless of what anyone else thinks I should make. My art is about art—embracing a vision of the future that is unlike past futures.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“I have always been interested in the concept of freedom on the personal and universal levels: political freedom, freedom to think and to feel. As an African American living in the United States, obviously issues like segregation laws, the civil rights movement in the 1960s or South Africa have been on my mind when I have dealt with the concept of freedom. But freedom also relates to my career as an artist: freedom of mind, thought and imagination. On the artistic level, freedom was a significant principle in the earlier art movements, such as Surrealism or Abstract Expressionism. More recently, public art focuses on the issue of universal freedom.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2001: Richard Hunt: Wings (Des Plaines, IL: Oakton Community College, 2001), 7.
“My sculpture begins and ends with what can be done with metal. Between the beginning and end are other considerations. The drama of the process of each weld involves a change of state from solid to liquid and back to solid. Repetitions of this process bring about construction, a new constellation of the real and the imagined, ruminations in metal. The material basis of my sculpture is metallic opportunities. Bringing pressure to the right points, I draw the aesthetic out of the industrial process. To me, metal is alive. The forms tell their own story—how they resisted the torch and hammer. From the mill through the studio to the gallery, park, or plaza, the sculptor’s challenge is to bend the metal to his wishes, hammer it into his vision.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.
“I am a Chicago artist because I am from this city; I’m a Black artist because I happen to be Black. These descriptions are sometimes useful to other people. But I’m also many other things—a man, a human being, an artist. Artists have a unique opportunity to make a difference . . . to look and work toward the future. Most people, by the nature of their work, have to think about what’s happening now, to serve as kind of custodians of our culture; but artists have the opportunity and responsibility to be forward-looking. We have the job of creating new ideas and visions for the future, and I’m pleased to be a part of that.”
Richard Hunt first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2021 (COMPILED FROM NOTES WRITTEN 2001–21)(2022). Richard Hunt. GREGORY R. MILLER & CO. ISBN 9781941366448.