Around the world Quote by Alfredo Jaar

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass…

— Alfredo Jaar

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from…

— Alfredo Jaar

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

— Alfredo Jaar

I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.

— Alfredo Jaar

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way…

— Alfredo Jaar

How many languages do we really speak?

— Alfredo Jaar

Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say,…

— Alfredo Jaar

We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

— Alfredo Jaar

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to…

— Alfredo Jaar

Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a…

— Alfredo Jaar

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops…

— Alfredo Jaar