Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Love
  • Things
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Matter

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• They're not poodles, they're art.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Art

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • True

• Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Work
  • Art
  • Space

• Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

  

  Brian Dyson
  • Moment
  • Don't Give Up

• A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Kill
  • Citizens

• Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.

  

  Carmen Ortiz
  • Dollars
  • Data
  • Stealing

• Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Matter