Olafur Eliasson Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Mind, Skins

  "Water, Water" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2008.

• 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

  Eye, Simple, Sight

• I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Landscape, Cameras

  Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Drutt (2004). “Olafur Eliasson: photographs”

• 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

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