Eva Hesse Quotes

Don’t ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

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

Excellence has no sex.

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.

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Life doesn’t last, art doesn’t last