24 Quotes by Eva Hesse

Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

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

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.

Art and life are inseparable.

Color is whatever comes out of the material and keeps it what it is.

Artists don't think archivally.

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

I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.

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.