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Top 30 Richard Serra Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Serra Quote: “Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.”

1. “Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “To see is to think, and to think is to see.”

2. “To see is to think, and to think is to see.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.”

3. “What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You’re directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn’t prescribed by a particular method.”

4. “Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You’re directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn’t prescribed by a particular method.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”

5. “Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.”

6. “Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there’s no book on rigging.”

7. “The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there’s no book on rigging.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through a piece and what one feels and registers in terms of one’s own body in relation to another body.”

8. “Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through a piece and what one feels and registers in terms of one’s own body in relation to another body.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.”

9. “Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.”

10. “I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “Work out of your work. Don’t work out of anybody else’s work.”

11. “Work out of your work. Don’t work out of anybody else’s work.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, ‘Richard, calm down.’”

12. “I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, ‘Richard, calm down.’”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.”

13. “I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.”

14. “I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.”

15. “I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.”

16. “When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it’s like coming home for me.”

17. “The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it’s like coming home for me.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “But I don’t think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.”

18. “But I don’t think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “But I’ll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.”

20. “But I’ll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.”

21. “I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.”

22. “Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.”

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Richard Serra Quote: “The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer’s movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.”

23. “The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer’s movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.”

24. “I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer’s body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.”

25. “Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer’s body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”

26. “Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.”

30. “But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “I think this, I think basically I’m not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.”

31. “I think this, I think basically I’m not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.”

— Richard Serra

Richard Serra Quote: “Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.”

32. “Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.”

— Richard Serra

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