"What a waste of time and education!'"
"My father was bitterly disappointed. He was an electrical engineer and worked on aircraft and thought sculpture was a very dull and unnecessary activity."
"If you have a picture on a wall, he says, it doesn't matter what the artist's intention was. A hundred people stand in front of it and they will tell you a hundred different things about it."
Tony Cragg is a Turner Prize-winning sculptor with more than fifty years of practice who lives in Wuppertal, Germany. He welcomes varied public interactions with his work, including visitors taking selfies, and sometimes greets such viewers physically or by implication. Cragg objects to audio guides because they can obstruct a spectator's direct relationship with an artwork. He asserts that viewers bring education, background, and abilities that shape distinct interpretations. Cragg recalls early familial resistance to his career, noting his father's belief that sculpture was unnecessary. He remains active internationally and maintains independent artistic convictions.
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