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I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
Eva Hesse
2.
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable
Eva Hesse
3.
Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
Eva Hesse
4.
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
Eva Hesse
5.
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
Eva Hesse
6.
I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
Eva Hesse
7.
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.
Eva Hesse
8.
I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.
Eva Hesse
9.
Life doesn't last, art doesn't last
Eva Hesse
10.
First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Eva Hesse
11.
My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Eva Hesse
12.
Excellence has no sex.
Eva Hesse
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In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.
Eva Hesse