Richard Serra Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

  Richard Serra

  Mean, Sculpture, Way

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• If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

  Richard Serra

  Deception, Sculpture, Planes

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• 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, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

  Richard Serra

  Clouds, Play, Path

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

  Richard Serra

  Book, Masters, Ifs

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

  Richard Serra

  Thinking, People, Different

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• On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

  Richard Serra

  Hands, Sea, Capes

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

  Richard Serra

  Home, Bay Area, Coming Back

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• 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 compartment.

  Richard Serra

  Action, Walking, Catalogues

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• 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 Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

  Richard Serra

  Guy, Disease, Sexuality

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• If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

  Richard Serra

  People, Way, Fields

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

  Richard Serra

  Lunch, Firsts, Advertising

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