“I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.” ThinkingSpaceShapesCommitmentToolsSizeAtmosphereZoneVolumeSculptors Author:Michael Heizer
“The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.” SimpleTypePureProfound Author:Michael Heizer
“The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.” IfsMeanDifferentTroubleSourceShapesDown AndCopiesSay AnythingReluctantCopying Author:Michael Heizer
“Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.” BigsDifferencesViewsEnvironmentLandscapeEcosystems Author:Michael Heizer
“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.” WritingHas BeensArtEnoughPoliticalPartyRightsIntellectualArt IsPropertyArticlesStolenCocktailsProperty RightsPlagiarismIntellectual PropertyCocktail Parties Author:Michael Heizer
“A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.” PeopleFeelsLittlesArtStrongAngryShockWorks Of ArtSpeechless Author:Michael Heizer
“I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.” I CanPhotographCan Not Author:Michael Heizer
“Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.” ImagineBuildingLikesInstanceFrankSculpture Author:Michael Heizer
“This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.” PainterThemeSculptors Author:Michael Heizer
“They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.” ArtCollectionsWorks Of ArtMuseumsMetropolitan Author:Michael Heizer
“Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.” EarthMaterialsSourceOriginals Book:Sculpture in Reverse Source: Sculpture in Reverse
