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> [In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/in-preindustrial-times-the-idea-of-creating-something-was-more/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/)

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## More by Tino Sehgal

> [I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/i-have-this-belief-that-if-you-have-an-idea-and-you-have-to-write-it/)

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> [As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/as-a-culture-or-a-civilisation-we-are-a-bit-juvenile-it-s-like-oh-i/)

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> [For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/for-the-general-public-my-work-is-sometimes-easier-than-a-painting/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/)

> [What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/what-my-work-is-about-is-can-something-that-is-not-an-inanimate/)

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> [Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/our-culture-is-hung-up-on-and-overemphasises-what-can-be-derived-from/)

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> [I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/i-m-not-against-the-intergenerational-function-of-the-museum-i-am-not/)

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> [Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/material-things-are-not-helpful-after-a-certain-degree-of-saturation/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 you had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/in-preindustrial-times-the-idea-of-creating-something-was-more/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 write about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/the-nature-of-my-work-is-my-subjectivity-meshed-with-other-people-s/)

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> [Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/because-of-this-high-status-of-the-object-in-our-culture-something/)

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> [I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/i-don-t-see-myself-as-somebody-who-looks-particularly-good-in-photos/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/)

> [My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/my-father-had-to-flee-from-what-is-today-pakistan-when-he-was-a-child/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/)

> [Attention is the material I work with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/attention-is-the-material-i-work-with/)

[Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/)

> [Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/photographs-are-two-dimensional-i-work-in-four-dimensions/)

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> [Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/kids-are-very-sensitive-to-the-value-system-of-their-parents-and-i/)

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