Michael Heizer Quotes

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

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