Eva Hesse Quotes

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

  Eva Hesse

  Doe, Asks

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Essence

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Want

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• 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

  Art, Keys, Economic

  "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.

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

  Eva Hesse

  Chaos, Pollock, Knows

  Eva Hesse, Nicholas Serota, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft (1979). “Eva Hesse: sculpture : [catalog of an exhibition held at] Whitechapel Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft”

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• Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Lasts

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• Excellence has no sex.

  Eva Hesse

  Sex, Excellence

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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• In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Soul, Inseparable

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Factors

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris

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

  Eva Hesse

  Ideas, Firsts, Execution

  Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• 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

  Art, Squares, Essence

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• My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Together, Has Beens

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris

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• 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

  Confidence, Understanding, Want

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