Donald Lipski Quotes

You want to be respectful of the public and engage them... I want to seduce the public. I want art that excites me and I want public art to be challenging, a step ahead. - Donald Lipski

When I was visiting the UW Athletic Department, they had a (computer-generated) promotional picture of the football team in front of the Colosseum, all wearing gladiator outfits... I knew I was on the right track. - Donald Lipski

These are some of the challenges of living in New York and having the piece manufactured in Sparta, Wisconsin... I've made five or six trips here and we e-mailed images back and forth. Still, I came here and the final piece has some things that ought to be changed. - Donald Lipski

Liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it. - Donald Lipski

I'm not saying my sculpture will make the team played better, or help anyone feel more pride... But it very well might. - Donald Lipski

I want it to be perfect. It is disappointing not to have it there for the Homecoming game, but I need to take the long view that it will be there for generations. - Donald Lipski

I hate to do it, especially with all the festivities. The governor is going to be here, the band is going to play, it's homecoming weekend, my mother's coming up from Chicago, my college roommates are flying in from different places. - Donald Lipski

I especially love Michelangelo's great slave sculptures. - Donald Lipski

I don't see Oldenburg as an influence, but he casts a big shadow as an extraordinary artist. - Donald Lipski

I do see that quality, triceps and quadriceps, really defined muscles, like a body builder. - Donald Lipski

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