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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

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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

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

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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

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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.

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I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.

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I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

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Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

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

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The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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