"I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable"
"I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing."
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Source: Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
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