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There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

~Richard Macdonald

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I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

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I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'

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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

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I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

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I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

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I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

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These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

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There are very few people who do what I do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sculptor

Born: Unknown

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