Skip to content

Quotes from Charlie Rose interview — Richard Serra

1939–2024

← All quotes by Richard Serra

8 quotes

The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

"You can talk about the 'how' and the 'what', but "when you get to the "why" it gets a little more difficult."

Charlie Rose interview (2013)

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

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."

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject.

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Serra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.