Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks.
Interpretation
Art comes naturally to me, allowing for freedom and risk-taking without fear.
In this quote, Eva Hesse reflects on her relationship with art, describing it as something that comes effortlessly to her. She acknowledges the work she has done but emphasizes that art is a domain where she feels liberated and unafraid, highlighting the contrast between the challenges of other pursuits and the instinctive ease she has with creative expression.
In practice
This quote could be used in an art class to inspire students to embrace their creativity.
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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