Richard Serra
American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal.
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Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
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."
I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.
To see is to think, and to think is to see.
I consider space to be a material.
Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.
Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.
Probably the most original and significant sculptor of his generation, certainly the most provocative.
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