Richard Serra Quotes

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• I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work. Different People
• Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through… Another Body
• I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form… Articulation
• If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the… Any
• What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to… All
• 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… Been
• 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… Body
• But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself. Any
• But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. Characteristics
• 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… All
• 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,… All
• I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers. Bethlehem
• I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work. Following
• 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… Able
• 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… Action
• The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture… Aware
• Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent… Administrators
• Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight. Choose
• Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see. Draw
• I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. Advertising

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