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.
I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people. - Olafur Eliasson
I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.
- Olafur Eliasson
I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality. - Olafur Eliasson
I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. - Olafur Eliasson
My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a culti… - Olafur Eliasson
I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a culti…
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility. - Olafur Eliasson
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates. - Olafur Eliasson
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, … - Olafur Eliasson
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, …
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple. - Olafur Eliasson
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.
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
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.
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