"I was interested in how we engage the……" — Olafur Eliasson
"I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with."
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12 Quotes by Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson has 12 quotes on this site.
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Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come…
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Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to…
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By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those…
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Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
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My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll…
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in…
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If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions…
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European…
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It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting…
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