Eva Hesse Quotes & Sayings

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

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last — Eva Hesse

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. — Eva Hesse

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does. — Eva Hesse

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

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

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock. — Eva Hesse

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

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together. — Eva Hesse

Excellence has no sex. — Eva Hesse

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

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier. — Eva Hesse