I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

- John Chamberlain

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

- John Chamberlain

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

- John Chamberlain

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

- John Chamberlain

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the ea…

- John Chamberlain

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Ch…

- John Chamberlain

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States c…

- John Chamberlain

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of an…

- John Chamberlain

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract…

- John Chamberlain