Olafur Eliasson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Light #Color #Goal
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Motivation #Inspiration #Responsibility
Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesnt necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesnt really tell you what youre looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Moving #Iceland #Views
Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside â€“ where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Moving #Thinking #Museums
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

#Eye #Mind #Skins
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Past #Cities #Berlin
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

#Russia #Choices #India
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Berlin #Firsts #Germany
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

#Art #Thinking #Museums
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Cities
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

#Art #Olympics #Littles
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

#Thinking #Safe Haven #Cities

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