Eliasson Artist Quotes & Sayings

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

He is power. Man. And strength. He is charm and desire and indestructible things.
I want to emit an equivalent passion. I want to be strength and desire. But I'm not sure how to match him and still move. It's easy to be confident in the face of average-standing competition. It's hard to pretend you're something greater in the face of someone who's already beyond great. — Krista Ritchie

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it. — Sarah Dessen

One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them. — Filip Spagnoli

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. — Olafur Eliasson

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it. — Tibor Kalman

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are. — Henry David Thoreau

The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy. — M.T. Bass

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

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

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job. — Charles Frazier

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. — Leonard Cohen