Deborah Butterfield Professions : Sculptor Born : May 7, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Deborah Butterfield My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body. Deborah Butterfield horse real moving In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground. Deborah Butterfield horse sticks real What is it that you most fear hearing about your work? Deborah Butterfield hearing The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit. Deborah Butterfield medical-science credit healthy Similar Authors Andrea Zittel sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculptor Auguste Rodin sculptor Augusta Savage sculptor Antony Gormley sculptor Anthony Caro sculptor All Authors
