Barnett Newman | Untitled Etching #1 | 1969

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Robert Motherwell

Bas Jan Ader, 1975

The subject of the work is your experience, your walking.

— Richard Serra

Harald Szeemann, 2001

sqq. Verzauberung auf Zeit

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

— Eva Hesse

There is never any question of what to paint, but how to paint.

— Robert Ryman

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Neue Nationalgalerie | 1968

Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience.

— Robert Morris

Bernd and Hilla Becher | Transformator Bous | 1970

Don’t confuse minimal with simple.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Haus Lemke | 1933

I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people.

— Zao Wou Ki

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt

Joachim Bandau | Überhängend | 2000

I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.

— Richard Serra

Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.

— Richard Serra

To me, the minimalist aesthetic is the most humanist of all, one that elicits the full power of all our senses.

— Richard Meier

Gregor Schneider | u61; Haus Lange | 1994

SANAA does not begin with imagining a form, but with imagining how light and wind flow through a window and a door.

— Ryue Nishizawa

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional – a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

— Bill Viola

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

James Turrell | Spread | 2003

Repetition changes nothing in the object perceived, but it does change something in the mind which contemplates it.

— Gilles Deleuze

sqq. Cobra Verde

[Andrei] Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

— Ingmar Bergman