KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Richard Serra Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Richard Serra

Showing 1-10 of 19 Quotes by Richard Serra

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

~Richard Serra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sculptor

Born: November 2nd, 1939

Links

Find Richard Serra on Amazon

Related Authors

Constantin Brancusi
Alexander Calder
Camille Claudel
Alberto Giacometti
Henry Moore
Bruce Nauman
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Auguste Rodin

Popular Authors

Cardi B Milton Friedman Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Freddie Mercury Pele Nina Simone John Wayne

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Experience Family Humor Intelligence Medical Patriotism Technology