Toggle navigation
Home
Topics
Authors
Professions
Picture Quotes
Users
Join Us Now!
Login
Richard Serra Quotes
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
~ Richard Serra
Been
Certainly
Chance
Continue
Disastrous
Even
Gets
Has-Been
History
Mean
Only
Ought
Out
Public
Sculpture
The History Of
Way
Work
design
copy
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
~ Richard Serra
About
Basically
Being
Body
Engage
His
Looking
Overly
Really
Relation
Thinking
Try
Viewer
Walking
Want
Without
You
design
copy
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
~ Richard Serra
Any
Mind
Myself
Other
Particular
Than
Think
Viewer
design
copy
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
~ Richard Serra
Characteristics
Formal
Immerse
Landscape
Many
Myself
Possible
Site
Try
design
copy
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's 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 that's all art can be.
~ Richard Serra
Art
Does
Effort
Experiences
I Think
Interest
Lot
Me
Means
Notion
Other
People
Possible
Potential
Sustained
Things
Think
Understand
Work
You
design
copy
But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
~ Richard Serra
Cloud
Consideration
Cover
How
How Much
Much
Paths
Play
Streams
Take
Things
Those
Whether
You
design
copy
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
~ Richard Serra
About
Started
Steel
Summers
Working
design
copy
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
~ Richard Serra
Different
Different People
Exhibition
I Think
People
Problems
Relations
Think
Work
design
copy
I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
~ Richard Serra
Basically
Following
I Think
Interested
Like
Making
Not Interested
People
Think
Work
design
copy
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
~ Richard Serra
Able
Always
Articulate
Boundary
Context
Find
How
I Think
Interact
Kind
Order
Relation
Space
Think
Viewer
Want
Where
You
design
copy
I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
~ Richard Serra
Action
Another
Because
Better
Catalogue
Like
Out
Than
Then
Thought
Walking
design
copy
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
~ Richard Serra
Billy
Billy Wilder
Came
Eat
First
Here
Lunch
Out
Out Here
Used
Wilder
design
copy
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
~ Richard Serra
About
Acknowledging
Aesthetic
Also
Because
Confront
Day
Every
Every Day
Field
Get
Going
Misused
Out
People
Provide
Urban
Used
Way
You
design
copy
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
~ Richard Serra
Administrators
Content
Deciding
Disease
Got
Guys
Homosexuality
Like
Now
Sexuality
Taboo
Terms
Who
You
design
copy
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
~ Richard Serra
All My Life
Cape
Core
Go
Hand
Life
Live
Lived
My Life
Other
Poetry
Sea
Underlying
design
copy
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
~ Richard Serra
About
Area
Back
Bay
Bay Area
Coming
Coming Home
Home
Like
Me
Thing
design
copy
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
~ Richard Serra
About
Become
Book
Learn
Master
Thing
You
design
copy
They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
~ Richard Serra
Also
Content
Decided
Government
Now
Sexual
design
copy
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
~ Richard Serra
Anybody
Else
Out
Work
Work Out
Your
design
copy
Quote Maker
×
download
High Quality
BG
Logo
Watermark
W BG
×
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Related Books
Author Profile
Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Richard Serra
Profession
Sculptor
BirthDate
02 November, 1939
Country
United States
View Profile
Share to your friends..
Related Author
Alexander Calder
Bruce Conner
Bruce Nauman
Dan Flavin
Edmonia Lewis
Eva Hesse
Felix de Weldon
Gaston Lachaise
James Sanborn
Red Grooms
Richard MacDonald
Richard Serra
Robert Gober
Robert Laurent
Ruth Asawa
view more
Share quotes with
Quote Fellas
Join Quote Fellas
Like Us!!
Quote Fellas
Popular Topics
Attitude
Death
Inspirational
Life
Love
Motivational
Nature
Positive