Richard Serra People Quotations

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.