Michael Heizer Quotations

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

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.

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.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.