Top 25 Tiravanija Quotes
#1. For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#2. I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#3. But those people are gone. Those people must be gone. They cannot survive in a world like this.
Victoria Aveyard
#5. I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.
Chris Froome
#6. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#7. One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#8. I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#9. I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#10. Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
Kevin Eubanks
#11. The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
Marianne Williamson
#12. Noisome liquid the bag had rested in. The rest stood on
Diana Gabaldon
#13. One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#16. I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.
Jonathan Galassi
#17. He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.
Whit Stillman
#19. My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#20. For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#22. Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
La India
#23. I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#24. If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#25. Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
Mia Love
