Doug Aitken

What The Source becomes, in a physical sense, is almost like this particle accelerator. There's all these different, discrete voices and ideas.…

— Doug Aitken

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not…

— Doug Aitken

You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these…

— Doug Aitken

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting…

— Doug Aitken

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry…

— Doug Aitken

Divisions between culture is not this precious thing, it's just this dirty beehive with things moving around, creating accidents, and violence, and…

— Doug Aitken

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

— Doug Aitken

I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting…

— Doug Aitken

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

— Doug Aitken

The compartmentalizing is so severe, that we kind of lose track. When you sit down to dinner with friends, you're going to…

— Doug Aitken

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

— Doug Aitken

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where…

— Doug Aitken

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in…

— Doug Aitken