Eva Hesse quotes
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“Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Eva Hesse, Nicholas Serota, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft (1979). “Eva Hesse: sculpture : [catalog of an exhibition held at] Whitechapel Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft”
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“I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris
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“In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
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“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...”
-- Eva HesseSource : "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.
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“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.”
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“First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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“Excellence has no sex.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
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“My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”
-- Eva HesseSource : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.”
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“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”
-- Eva HesseSource : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
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