"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.
That is not the problem. Those things are
solvable. I solved them beautifully. 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. I am interested in solving an unknown
factor of art and an unknown factor of life. My
life and art have not been separated. They have
been together."

Eva Hesse- from a 1970 interview
from *Eva Hesse* by Lucy Lippard