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  • Sculptor
  • 1936 - 1970
  • 27 quotes

Eva Hesse, a sculptor (1936 - 1970), is quoted 27 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Art, Inseparable, Normal and Want.

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Excellence has no sex.

Art and life are inseparable.

Artists don't think archivally.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

There's not been one normal thing in my life.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?

Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.

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.

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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