Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.
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Directing a film is a lot of work.
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I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people's lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
