Kjartansson Quotes

#1. I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

Thomas Horn

#2. A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#3. I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#4. When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Ray Manzarek

#5. I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#6. The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

Ragnar Kjartansson

#7. Abortion is a moral right - which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.

Ayn Rand

#8. The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.

Carlos Montezuma

#9. What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#10. Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong.
It's just that ... TIME has passed and changed it all.

Yuuki Obata

#11. When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open
up.

Iyanla Vanzant

#12. I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#13. I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#14. I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#15. I kiss the soil as
if it is the last time I will recognize
the beauty she has given the trees.

A.P. Sweet

#16. Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.

Ragnar Kjartansson