Michael Heizer famous quotes

04-17-2025

Iâ€™m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
-- Michael Heizer

#Self #Dialogue #Entertaining
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.
-- Michael Heizer

#Art #Writing #Rights
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
-- Michael Heizer

#Ecosystems #Differences #Views
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.
-- Michael Heizer

#Mean #Say Anything #Shapes
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
-- Michael Heizer

#Simple #Profound #Type
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.
-- Michael Heizer

#Commitment #Thinking #Space
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
-- Michael Heizer

#Earth #Source #Materials
They are works of art that can be considered works of artÂ but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
-- Michael Heizer

#Art #Museums #Metropolitan
I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
-- Michael Heizer

#Raised
This theme of bigness â€” all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
-- Michael Heizer

#Theme #Painter
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
-- Michael Heizer

#Sculpture #Likes #Imagine
I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
-- Michael Heizer

#Art #Static
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
-- Michael Heizer

#Art #Strong #People

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