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“Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“To see is to think, and to think is to see.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“You can talk about the 'how' and the 'what', but "when you get to the "why" it gets a little more difficult.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2013)

“I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Richard Serra Quotes

“I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: "Richard, calm down."”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

“With any work of art, what happens is if you're open to seeing it you probably have a sensation," he tells the talk show host, "and that sensation leads to an experience and that experience is private and deals with your background, where you were born, what you've been exposed to, who you know, what your education was; and it will lead to other ways of thinking about other things.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2013)

“(.. as a practicing artist) You're competing against who came before and came after. You're just another stone in the wall, and if you make a contribution you're lucky.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2013)

“The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.”

Richard Serra

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

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