Richard Serra Quotes & Sayings

“Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.”

“On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.”

“I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.”

“If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.”

“Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.”

“But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.”

“The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.”

“But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.”

“But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.”

“I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.”