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, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game… — 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
