When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.

- Jeppe Hein

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.

- Jeppe Hein

I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

- Jeppe Hein

When you have children it wakes up the child in you.

- Jeppe Hein

If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.

- Jeppe Hein

People reflect themselves in the work and [it] becomes a tool for communication and dialogue. You bring it out here and you see people walking around…

- Jeppe Hein

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

- Jeppe Hein

We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.

- Jeppe Hein

I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves.

- Jeppe Hein