Rachel Whiteread Quotes

• I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Art, Sculpture, World

  "Boxing Clever". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Artist, Thinking, Differences

  "Still Breaking the Mould". Interview with Gordon Burn, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2005.

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• When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Grief, Kids, People

  2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.

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