Oliver Herring Quotes

• Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

  Oliver Herring

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

  Oliver Herring

  Imagination, Creative, Tools

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• If somebody actually just walks up to you and says, ‘Hey, do you want to do something out of the ordinary?’ there might be a little reluctance at first. But deep down, you want to do it. It’s adventure. That’s what brings people in front of the camera. I also feel that when you’re in your own environment that’s where you experiment, where you do all kinds of crazy stuff. So I thought, ‘Okay, let’s just see what happens if I allow that to unfold.’

  Oliver Herring

  Crazy, Adventure, People

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• Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.

  Oliver Herring

  Creative, Tasks, Fluidity

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• Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.

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  Moving, Ideas, Long

  "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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