Eva Hesse Quotes

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

Eva Hesse

#2. Excellence has no sex.

Eva Hesse

#3. 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.

Eva Hesse

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

Eva Hesse

#5. 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.

Eva Hesse

#6. I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

Red Auerbach

#7. 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 Hesse

#8. What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#9. No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Oswald Chambers

#10. Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

George Farquhar

#11. It would be a safe place for the sharing of burdens and capturing memories before they disappeared. It would be called the Ministry of Stories and Truth and it would help her kingdom heal.

Kristin Cashore

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

Eva Hesse

#13. 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 Hesse

#14. Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

Eva Hesse

#15. I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves.
There they go again.
Jiggle.
Jaggle.
I'm a mess.

Susane Colasanti

#16. Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.

Stephon Marbury

#17. At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying. Instead, opium made me realize that I could say anything I liked without losing my identity.

Jerzy Kosinski

#18. 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.

Eva Hesse

#19. Bowl of rejection," Kees was saying. "Or bowl of regret. That's what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life.

Suanne Laqueur

#20. I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

David Gilmour

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

Eva Hesse

#22. In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive!

Robin Rowles

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

Eva Hesse

#24. I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.

Jodi Meadows