Top 38 Sehgal Quotes
#1. As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
Jerry Saltz
#2. I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the 'Times Food Guide Awards,' so it was with The 'Times of India' that my career began in this field.
Vir Das
#3. As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.
Tino Sehgal
#4. For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.
Tino Sehgal
#5. The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that ... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
Tino Sehgal
#6. We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.
Tino Sehgal
#8. Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
Tino Sehgal
#9. Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?
Tino Sehgal
#10. The oldest and most important currency is debt.
Kabir Sehgal
#11. I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.
Tino Sehgal
#12. The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.
Kabir Sehgal
#13. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tino Sehgal
#14. We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.
Kabir Sehgal
#15. Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
Kabir Sehgal
#16. As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
Parul Sehgal
#17. Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.
Kabir Sehgal
#18. Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.
Kabir Sehgal
#19. When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.
Kabir Sehgal
#20. My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.
Tino Sehgal
#21. Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.
Kabir Sehgal
#22. I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
Tino Sehgal
#23. A confident person is a happy person and a happy person is lucky. That's probably the reason that the term 'happy-go-lucky' came into the lexicon.
ATUL SEHGAL
#24. What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
Tino Sehgal
#25. When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.
Parul Sehgal
#26. You are seeing me now, when I am old and ugly; you should have seen me then, when I was young and ugly.
Zohra Sehgal
#27. I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.
Tino Sehgal
#28. Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.
Parul Sehgal
#29. I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.
Tino Sehgal
#30. In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.
Tino Sehgal
#31. Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.
Zohra Sehgal
#32. Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
Tino Sehgal
#33. Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.
Kabir Sehgal
#34. The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
Tino Sehgal
#35. I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
Tino Sehgal
#36. A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.
Tino Sehgal
#37. When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.
Parul Sehgal
#38. I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
Tino Sehgal
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