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Charles Ray

There are parts of us we stylize and present to the world. And there are parts of us that we don’t stylize and are just natural. And they don’t just hang in a jarring way, hopefully, but there’s an interrelationship between them.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Sometimes in a sculpture, it’s interesting to me what’s stylized and what’s natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

I’ve always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn’t really show them.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

There’s something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it’s just really amazing.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the work itself. The interpretation of work isn’t the key to understanding it. I’m worried about making a good sculpture. I’m not so worried about the interpretation of it.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

We’re all equal in sleep.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They’re off in a fantasy, and it’s very similar to what happens on a cell phone.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I’m walking. More in the early morning when I’m trekking in the mountains. When I’m walking in the city, I think more about people around me – my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

I’ve had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it’s such a commitment of time that it’s stopped me.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

– Charles Ray

Charles Ray

I’ve made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

– Charles Ray

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