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 More Quotes by Eva Hesse More Quotes From Eva Hesse Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does. Eva Hesse asksdoe 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 selfwantmean 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 essenceartthinking 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 economickeysart Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock. Eva Hesse pollockchaosknows I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. Eva Hesse factorsart 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 squaresessenceart Life doesn't last, art doesn't last Eva Hesse lastsart My life and art have not been separated. They have been together. Eva Hesse has-beenstogetherart First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier. Eva Hesse executionideasfirsts In my inner soul art and life are inseparable. Eva Hesse inseparablesoulart Excellence has no sex. Eva Hesse excellencesex Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen? Eva Hesse willmetrustbelieve Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick. Eva Hesse picturesmesicknice Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does. Eva Hesse askratherseework 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 willbeingmyselfme Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. Eva Hesse lastmatterlifeart 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 freedomworklifeart Artists don't think archivally. Eva Hesse artiststhink 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 freepaintingstrongproblem
