Richard Serra

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is…

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not…

— Richard Serra

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience…

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how…

— Richard Serra

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to…

— Richard Serra

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got…

— Richard Serra

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to…

— Richard Serra

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said,…

— Richard Serra

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking,…

— Richard Serra

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only…

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

— Richard Serra

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for…

— Richard Serra

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

— Richard Serra

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud…

— Richard Serra

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion…

— Richard Serra

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a…

— Richard Serra