Tino Sehgal

The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.

— Tino Sehgal

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

— Tino Sehgal

Attention is the material I work with.

— Tino Sehgal

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

— Tino Sehgal

I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.

— Tino Sehgal

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it…

— Tino Sehgal

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

— Tino Sehgal

The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you…

— Tino Sehgal

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed…

— Tino Sehgal

As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do…

— Tino Sehgal

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is…

— Tino Sehgal

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something…

— Tino Sehgal

We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle…

— Tino Sehgal

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I…

— Tino Sehgal

My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM,…

— Tino Sehgal

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is…

— Tino Sehgal

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new,…

— Tino Sehgal

Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal.…

— Tino Sehgal

On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the…

— Tino Sehgal

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people…

— Tino Sehgal

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is…

— Tino Sehgal

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be…

— Tino Sehgal

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance,…

— Tino Sehgal

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…

— Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into…

— Tino Sehgal