Richard Serra Quotes

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Revolutions never go backward.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

The youth doesn't know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same - demand and supply - and that won't change.