Michael Heizer Quotes

• Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

  Michael Heizer

  Earth, Source, Materials

  Michael Heizer, Barbara Heizer (1984). “Sculpture in Reverse”

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• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Commitment, Thinking, Space

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• A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Strong, People

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• The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

  Michael Heizer

  Simple, Profound, Type

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• I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

  Michael Heizer

  Self, Dialogue, Entertaining

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• They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Museums, Metropolitan

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• Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

  Michael Heizer

  Views, Ecosystems, Differences

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• Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

  Michael Heizer

  Sculpture, Likes, Imagine

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• I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Static

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• This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

  Michael Heizer

  Theme, Painter, Sculptors

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• I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Writing, Rights

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• I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

  Michael Heizer

  Photograph, Can Not, I Can

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• I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

  Michael Heizer

  Raised, Promoting

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• The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

  Michael Heizer

  Mean, Say Anything, Copying

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