Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English artist Rachel Whiteread.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Dame Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.
I don't want to make plop art โ sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.