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Thursday, 2 October 2014

unknown

[Carl Andre] says you can’t confuse life and art. But I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence a soul, and that’s what it’s about ... In my inner soul art and life are inseparable. It becomes more absurd and less absurd to isolate a basically intuitive idea and then work up some calculated system and follow it through—that supposedly being the more intellectual approach— than precedence to soul or presence or what ever you want to call it ... I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. For me it’s a total image that has to do with me and life. It can’t be divorced as an idea or composition or form...


Eva Hesse