Eva Hesse

"I would like the work

to be non-work.

This means that it would

find its way

beyond my preconceptions.

What I want of my art,

I can eventually find.

The work must go

beyond this.

It is my main concern

to go beyond

what I know

and

what I can know.

The formal principles

are understandable

and understood.

It is the unknown quantity

from which

and where I want to go.

As a thing, an object,

it accedes

to its non-logical self.

It is something.

It is nothing."