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2022
As a sculptor in time, place, in space, and alone, sculpture should seem to have grown here and also to have been built here.
Molly Ott
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2021 (Compiled from notes written 2001–21)
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 ...
Molly Ott
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2011
I like working with my hands, making things and holding things.
Molly Ott
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2001
I have always been interested in the concept of freedom on the personal and universal levels ...
Molly Ott
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1998
I came to see the strength of my own roots and past.
Molly Ott
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1989
Play, as I look back on it, began what has been a second career for me, that of a public sculptor.
Molly Ott
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1987
The theme of much of my work can be characterized as a fusion or harmonization of the vital tensions existing between dualities...
Molly Ott
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1987, African Art
The complex variety and vitality of the forms I began to surround and involve myself with led me to some interesting discoveries ...
Molly Ott
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1967
Everything that exists, natural or man made, contains some sculptural quality or property.
Molly Ott
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1966
In some works it is my intention to develop the kind of forms nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her.
Molly Ott
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1957 (EDITED BY THE ARTIST IN 1960)
To a great extent, the success of an artist in today’s society might still be a matter of building a better mouse trap.
Molly Ott
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