"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."
"What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center."
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Source: Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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