Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.
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Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
