Tiravanija Quotes & Sayings

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key. — Sarah Dessen

An average horse can produce only about half a horsepower for any extended period. — David E. Nye

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system. — Mike DeWine

My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, — Doris Lessing

For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play. — Sam Shepard

For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

Some people come in your life as blessings, the others come as lessons. — Anonymous

When I visit new places, I like to see the markets. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. — Sterling W. Sill

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. — William Shakespeare

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

on that more than anything else. But crazy pants Professor aside, — J. Lynn

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. — Ben Stein

I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. — Jerry Saltz

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me. — Sarah Baker

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting. — Whitney Thompson