A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
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… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
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,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief.… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?' — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
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… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
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… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
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… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share
