Eva Hesse Quotes

#1. 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

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

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

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#4. 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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#5. Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

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

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

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#8. 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 ...

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

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#11. 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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#12. Excellence has no sex.

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