--- title: "1 Industrial Society Quotes By Tino Sehgal" description: "1 Industrial Society quotes by Tino Sehgal. Plus more from Tino Sehgal and more Industrial Society sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/tino-sehgal-23847_about_a-museum-is-like-a-valuing-machine-museu_3168879.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/a-museum-is-like-a-valuing-machine-museums-and-the-industrial-society/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/536/tino-sehgal-23847_about_a-museum-is-like-a-valuing-machine-museu_3168879.jpg) ## 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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 so cool,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/as-a-culture-or-a-civilisation-we-are-a-bit-juvenile-it-s-like-oh-i/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 am against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tino-sehgal/i-m-not-against-the-intergenerational-function-of-the-museum-i-am-not/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) > [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/) [Tino Sehgal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tino-sehgal/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/industrial-society/tino-sehgal/#itemlist", "name": "1 Industrial Society Quotes By Tino Sehgal", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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