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

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Source : "Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color". Interview with Elisa Wouk Almino, hyperallergic.com. January 14, 2015.

Olafur Eliasson

#Light Quotes #Color Quotes #Goal Quotes

“There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over their concerns know the blessing of having few concerns. Only those who have calmed their minds know the misfortune of having many worries.”
“Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.”
“Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.”
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
“I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.”
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

Source : "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,
“I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.”
“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms”

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