Eva Hesse

Artists don't think archivally. ”

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. ”

There's not been one normal thing in my life. ”

Art and life are inseparable. ”

Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks. ”

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. ”

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center. ”

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. ”

Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen? ”

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves. ”