Latest Olafur Eliasson Quotes from Interviews

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• I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Reality, Trying, Producers

• Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Impact, Light, Aesthetic

• The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Individual, Artwork, Viewers

• There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, People, Today

• 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

• I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Believe, Light, People

• In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Poor Quality, Light, Oil

• 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 see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Reality, Producers

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Thinking, Valuable

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Distance, Artist, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de