Michael Heizer Quotes
- I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
- I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
- Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
- This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
- I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
- They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
- Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
- I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best…
- Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
- The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his…
- The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors…
- The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.