30 Quotes by Michael Heizer

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

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.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.