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Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
~ Eva Hesse
Ask
Does
Means
Rather
See
Work
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Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.
~ Eva Hesse
Always
Anything
Been
Center
Ever
Everything
Had
Life
Me
Middle
My Life
Never
Normal
Nothing
Opposites
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I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.
~ Eva Hesse
Am
I Am
Lasting
Really
Stand
Sure
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I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.
~ Eva Hesse
After
Am
Believe
Come
Convinced
First
Given
Great
I Am
Must
People
Period
Themselves
Then
Time
Ultimately
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I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
~ Eva Hesse
About
Absurd
Achieved
Art
Because
Been
Edge
Freedom
Go
Happy
Has-Been
Life
Maybe
Most
My Life
Normal
Openness
Really
Thing
Total
Total Freedom
Traumatic
Walk
Want
Where
Willing
Willingness
Work
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I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.
~ Eva Hesse
Achieve
Difficult
Free
Image
Itself
Like
Must
Other
Painting
Possible
Powerful
Problem
Shall
Should
Spontaneous
Strong
Structured
Which
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If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.
~ Eva Hesse
Abandon
Against
Being
Every
Imposed
Inner
Me
Myself
Others
Paint
Physical
Placed
Restrictions
Rule
Solely
Strip
Superficial
Those
Will
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Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.
~ Eva Hesse
Art
Last
Life
Matter
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Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?
~ Eva Hesse
Any
Believe
Calculated
Happen
Knows
Maybe
Me
Plan
Really
Trust
Trust Me
Who
Will
Without
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Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.
~ Eva Hesse
Lines
Make
Me
Nice
Novels
Parallel
Pictures
Pretty
Sculpture
Sick
Wall
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There's not been one normal thing in my life.
~ Eva Hesse
Been
Life
My Life
Normal
Thing
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
~ Willard Wigan
Ants
Believe
Could
Did
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Kid
Lived
Once
Say
Talk
Thank
Thank You
They Say
Used
World
You
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
~ Willard Wigan
Became
Escape
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Heating
Home
Imagined
Made
Noises
Person
Pipes
Rope
Things
Tiny
World
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At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
~ Willard Wigan
Could
Felt
Grow
Grow Up
Like
Me
Nobody
Pain
Reflects
School
See
Small
Up
Want
Work
World
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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
~ Willard Wigan
Flying
Fun
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I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
~ Willard Wigan
Always
Failure
Friend
Just
Learned
Lived
My Friend
My Own
Nothing
Own
Say
School
World
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I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
~ Willard Wigan
Became
Could
Difficulties
Embarrassment
Feel
Find
Had
Having
How
I Think
Learning
Made
Making
Me
More
More And More
Obsessed
People
Show
Significant
Small
Them
Things
Think
Tiny
Trying
Wanted
Way
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I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
~ Willard Wigan
Camel
Camels
Decided
Easier
Eye
Get
Heard
Heaven
Man
Needle
Pass
Rich
Rich Man
Say
Sculpt
Someone
Than
Through
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I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
~ Willard Wigan
Ants
Back
Because
Began
Career
Criticize
Dyslexia
Escaped
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Hats
Hold
Houses
How
Live
Made
Making
Me
Needed
Shoes
Somewhere
Started
Teachers
Them
Then
Thought
Where
World
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I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
~ Willard Wigan
Am
Become
Big
How
I Am
Nothing
Now
People
Showing
Would
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