“With any work of art, what happens is if you're open to seeing it you probably have a sensation," he tells the talk show host, "and that sensation leads to an experience and that experience is private and deals with your background, where you were born, what you've been exposed to, who you know, what your education was; and it will lead to other ways of thinking about other things.”
“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.”
Richard Serra
“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."”
Richard Serra
“Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.”
Richard Serra
“The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.”
Richard Serra
“Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.”
Richard Serra