Rachel Whiteread

Visual Arts United Kingdom 1963 100 quotes

Installation artist casting negative spaces of everyday objects.

Quotes by Rachel Whiteread

The void is as important as the solid in my work.

Artist Statement 1989

Objects carry stories, and I want to listen to those stories.

Book 2003

Public art should be about community and shared history.

Speech 2000

I find beauty in the ordinary, in the overlooked details of life.

Interview 1996

Sculpture is my way of wrestling with time and decay.

Lecture 2006

The bed, the chair—they are intimate, they hold our bodies.

Catalog 1991

Art is not about answers; it's about the questions we ask ourselves.

Interview 1998

I cast to capture what is fleeting, to make it eternal.

Artist Statement 1992

Homes are where we live our secrets and our joys.

Book 2002

In sculpture, silence speaks louder than form sometimes.

Speech 2004

The past lingers in the spaces we leave behind.

Interview 1987

My work is a meditation on loss, but also on resilience.

Exhibition Text 2010

Every object has a shadow story, unseen but felt.

Lecture 1999

I aim to make the invisible visible through casting.

Interview 1994

Life is full of absences that define us.

Book 2007

Sculpture should invite touch, even if it's impossible.

Speech 2008

Memory shapes our identity more than facts do.

Interview 2012

The domestic is political; our homes reflect society.

Catalog 2001

I create forms that echo the human condition.

Artist Statement 1995

Art is a way to confront the emptiness within.

Lecture 2015