Eliasson Quotes

#1. Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

Victor Pinchuk

#2. Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

Olafur Eliasson

#3. I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

Olafur Eliasson

#4. Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all

Jan Eliasson

#5. My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

Olafur Eliasson

#6. It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

Olafur Eliasson

#7. You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life ... so long as it benefits me

Frank Beddor

#8. I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

Olafur Eliasson

#9. If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Olafur Eliasson

#10. Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

Olafur Eliasson

#11. I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

Olafur Eliasson

#12. They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

Peter D. Schiff

#13. Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Jan Eliasson

#14. I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

Olafur Eliasson

#15. By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

Olafur Eliasson

#16. For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

Olafur Eliasson

#17. I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.

Olafur Eliasson

#18. I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

Olafur Eliasson

#19. I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.

Olafur Eliasson

#20. I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.

Olafur Eliasson

#21. It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

Olafur Eliasson

#22. I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

#23. I don't have time. Come back after the election.

Jan Eliasson

#24. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.

Jessie Pavelka

#25. Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Jan Eliasson

#26. In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

Olafur Eliasson

#27. Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Olafur Eliasson

#28. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Eckhart Tolle

#29. I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

Olafur Eliasson

#30. Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

Olafur Eliasson

#31. I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Olafur Eliasson