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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
Angry
Art
Because
Feel
Leaves
Little
People
Really
Speechless
Strong
Understand
Work
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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.
~ Michael Heizer
Art
Artwork
Business
Commercial
Hurry
Like
Schedule
Thing
You
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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
~ Michael Heizer
Academic
Background
Come
Myself
Promoting
Raised
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I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
~ Michael Heizer
Art
Dynamic
Make
Static
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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
Atmosphere
Because
Becomes
Best
Commitment
Get
I Think
Lots
Me
Most
Repertoire
Requires
Sculptor
Shape
Size
Space
Stand
Think
Time
Tool
Unused
Volume
You
Zone
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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.
~ Michael Heizer
Admitted
Anyway
Bolivia
City
Come
Dad
Father
Finished
Good
He
High
High School
Him
Later
Lived
Me
Mexico
Mexico City
Never
Out
Paris
Peru
School
Straight
Student
Taken
Then
Thought
Would
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I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
~ Michael Heizer
About
Academic
Art
Art World
Books
Educated
Europe
Frame
Historical
Ideas
Looking
Mine
Myself
New
New York
Provide
Reference
Similar
Usual
Work
World
York
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I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
~ Michael Heizer
About
Art
Articles
Been
Cocktail
Enough
Go
Has-Been
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Meaning
Myself
Only
Parties
Political
Property
Property Rights
Rights
Stolen
Work
Write
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I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
~ Michael Heizer
Crazy
Dogmatic
Gentle
Hostile
Image
Me
Mean
Person
Really
Unfair
Very
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I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
~ Michael Heizer
Dialogue
Myself
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Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
~ Michael Heizer
Big
Big Difference
Difference
Down
Ecosystem
Environment
Everything
Just
Landscape
Me
Thing
View
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The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
~ Michael Heizer
American
Art
Begins
Big
Dealt
Ever
His
History
Jackson
Painters
Paintings
Since
The History Of
Theme
Way
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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.
~ Michael Heizer
Architectural
Buildings
Frank
Genuine
Gimmick
His
Imagine
Instance
Like
Likes
Sculptures
Size
Some
Thing
Trick
Work
design
copy
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.
~ Michael Heizer
About
Anything
Copies
Developed
Different
Different Shapes
Down
Mean
Now
Off
Once
Reluctant
Ripping
Say
Shapes
Something
Source
Then
Those
Trouble
You
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The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
~ Michael Heizer
Like
Profound
Pure
Simple
Type
Work
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