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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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…

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer