Olafur Eliasson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

• I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop their own signatures by collecting themselves. On the other hand, though, I think we should also celebrate the fact that there is a lot of art that lives outside of, or on the outskirts of, the art market - and it is doing quite well.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Eye, Light

• By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, London Olympics, Events

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