“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.” PeopleIfsWayUsedFieldsAestheticUrbanMisused Author:Richard Serra
“The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.” IfsBookMasters Author:Richard Serra
“If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.” IfsDifferentRealPurposeConcernPhotographScalesPassingPassingsPlanesFlatsConsumptionSculptureReducingPassing On Book:Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980 Source: Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980
“If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.” IfsConditionsDeceptionPlanesFlatsSculptureInseparable Author:Richard Serra
“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.” IfsWayMeanHas BeensChanceOughtSculpture Author:Richard Serra
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanDoeArtInterestEffortNotionWorking It Author:Richard Serra
“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.” IfsHandsSeaCoreCapesCape Breton Author:Richard Serra
