Eva Hesse Quotes

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

Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.

- Eva Hesse

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

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

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

Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks.

- Eva Hesse

Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?

- Eva Hesse

I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

- Eva Hesse

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

Artists don't think archivally.

- Eva Hesse

Art and life are inseparable.

- Eva Hesse