Richard Serra Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

  Richard Serra

  Reading, Priorities, Gestalt

  Richard Serra, Clara Weyergraf-Serra (1980). “Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980”, p.170, Hudson River Museum

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• Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

  Richard Serra

  Axes, Perception, Sculpture

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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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• 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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