Art Quote 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…

— 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,…

— 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.…

— Tino Sehgal

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tino Sehgal

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

— 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…

— Tino Sehgal