Richard Serra Quotes

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Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.

Richard Serra
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.

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I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: "Richard, calm down."

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I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.

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"With any work of art, what happens is if you're open to seeing it you probably have a sensation," he tells the talk show host, "and that sensation leads to an experience and that experience is private and deals with your background, where you were born, what you've been exposed to, who you know, what your education was; and it will lead to other ways of thinking about other things."

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Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

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The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.

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(.. as a practicing artist) You're competing against who came before and came after. You're just another stone in the wall, and if you make a contribution you're lucky.

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"You can talk about the 'how' and the 'what', but "when you get to the "why" it gets a little more difficult."

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Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.

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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

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Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

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If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

Richard Serra