American - Artist | 1944 -
I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
Michael Heizer
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A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
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I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
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The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
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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.
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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.
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Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
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I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.
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Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
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The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
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The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
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