Richard Serra
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Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal.
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Charlie Rose interview (2001) [edit]
- I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.
- I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: "Richard, calm down."
- Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.
- The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.
- Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.
- To see is to think, and to think is to see.
- Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
- Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
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- I consider space to be a material.
Quotes about Serra [edit]
- Probably the most original and significant sculptor of his generation, certainly the most provocative.
