Andrea Zittel Quotes

United States, Artist
September 6, 1965

Andrea Zittel is an American artist based in Joshua Tree, CA whose practice encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation that explores the questions “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?”

There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.

Andrea Zittel
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- Happens
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The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.

Andrea Zittel
- Creation
- Rule

I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

Andrea Zittel
I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.

Andrea Zittel