Olafur Eliasson Quotes

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

Olafur Eliasson

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Poor
  • Leave
  • Behind

• I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Just
  • Cook

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Family
  • Know
  • West

• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sun

• I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Period

• You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Art
  • Forest

• I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

  

  Dave Hickey
  • Art
  • Political
  • Hate

• Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Chaos

• By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Sun