Quotes by Richard Serra

“Steves early work had a lasting effect on me. The density and the gravity of the sound was so great it prevents recollection. The power of Steves music has to do with its sound. Tempo counts, and language is pushed to the breaking point, where the meaning of the word is obliterated and lets the music out.”

“The Matter of Time,”

“The subject of the work is your experience, your walking,”

“The piece is predicated on walking and moving, anticipation and reflection, through these various pieces and through the museum as a whole.”

“I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasnt even 30 yet.”

“When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.”

“This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. Its open and people will gather and walk around.”

“The weight doesnt seem to be a factor because you dont sense the weight. They look like big feathers or something, big blades.”

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means theres 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 thats all art can be.