Creativity Quote by Alan Vega

There’s a quiet swagger in how Alan Vega frames an art-world milestone like a half-shrug. “I’m showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we’ll see” reads less like an announcement than a refusal to perform gratitude. Vega, best known for the abrasive, future-shock minimalism of Suicide, spent his career turning provocation into a kind of plain speech. Here, that plainness is the point.

The first clause is all logistics: place, season, medium. No mythmaking, no “honored to,” no carefully burnished narrative about a new chapter. Then the pivot: “so we’ll see.” It’s a dismissive little curtain drop that undercuts the prestige of an overseas exhibition, as if the institutional validation is just another gig that might go well, might not, might not even matter. That’s Vega’s longtime posture: keep moving, keep making, don’t let the system narrate you.

Subtextually, it’s also the language of an artist who’s lived outside the neat lanes. Vega’s sculpture practice was never a side hobby; it was part of the same downtown continuum as the music - found objects, street energy, the tension between trash and icon. Saying “we’ll see” acknowledges the instability of reception: Europe might embrace the work, collectors might bite, critics might file him into some belated “outsider to insider” story. Vega won’t pre-approve any of it. He holds the future at arm’s length, letting the work go out into the world without begging it to be understood.