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Tino Sehgal Quotes

Attention is the material I work with Picture Quote #1
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn’t going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens Picture Quote #1
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It’s already eroding Picture Quote #1
On a very, very basic level, I’m definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don’t see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn’t do that with the amount of people we have Picture Quote #1
I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you’re supposed to look at things and not talk to other people Picture Quote #1
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can’t I work on myself with my friends and family? Picture Quote #1
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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 our success in a naive way. There’s more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that Picture Quote #1
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don’t want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music Picture Quote #1
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 a great idea Picture Quote #1
As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that’s why we need to be continually producing new stuff Picture Quote #1
I don’t see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos Picture Quote #1
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don’t fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there’s somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react Picture Quote #1
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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 me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration Picture Quote #1
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film Picture Quote #1
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Attention is the material I work with  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn’t going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It’s already eroding  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) On a very, very basic level, I’m definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don’t see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn’t do that with the amount of people we have.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you’re supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can’t I work on myself with my friends and family?  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) 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 our success in a naive way. There’s more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don’t want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) 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 a great idea.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that’s why we need to be continually producing new stuff.  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) I don’t see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don’t fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there’s somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) 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 me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration  (Tino Sehgal Quotes) I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film  (Tino Sehgal Quotes)