Olafur Eliasson

I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.

— Olafur Eliasson

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

— Olafur Eliasson

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

— Olafur Eliasson

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

— Olafur Eliasson

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

— Olafur Eliasson

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

— Olafur Eliasson

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

— Olafur Eliasson

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

— Olafur Eliasson

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think…

— Olafur Eliasson

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits…

— Olafur Eliasson

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically…

— Olafur Eliasson

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…

— Olafur Eliasson

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

— Olafur Eliasson

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

— Olafur Eliasson

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but…

— Olafur Eliasson

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a…

— Olafur Eliasson

I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the…

— Olafur Eliasson

When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable…

— Olafur Eliasson

In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light,…

— Olafur Eliasson

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be…

— Olafur Eliasson

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked…

— Olafur Eliasson

Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a…

— Olafur Eliasson

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested…

— Olafur Eliasson

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the…

— Olafur Eliasson

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

— Olafur Eliasson

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

— Olafur Eliasson

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to…

— Olafur Eliasson

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly…

— Olafur Eliasson

I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken…

— Olafur Eliasson

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a…

— Olafur Eliasson

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to…

— Olafur Eliasson

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the…

— Olafur Eliasson

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in…

— Olafur Eliasson