Richard Serra Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.”

“And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.”

“But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.”

“I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.”

“I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.”

“I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.”

“They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.”

“I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.”

“The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.”