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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

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.

- Michael Heizer

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

- Michael Heizer

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 …

- Michael Heizer

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

- 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