Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Eva Hesse
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American sculptor Eva Hesse.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
Color is whatever comes out of the material and keeps it what it is.
I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.
If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.
Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.
Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.
I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.
Artists don't think archivally.
Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?
Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.
Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks.
Art and life are inseparable.
There's not been one normal thing in my life.
Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.
First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Life doesn't last, art doesn't last
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.
I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.
Excellence has no sex.
In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
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