Tiravanija Rirkrit Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same. — Zach Condon

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment. — Nhat Hanh

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

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

First, it created an electronic suggestion box where Pixar people could submit discussion topics they thought would help us become more innovative and more efficient. Immediately, topic ideas began flooding in, along with suggestions about how to run Notes Day itself. — Ed Catmull

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

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

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. — Stephen Hawking

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

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. — Rene Magritte

What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening?
Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying.
I imagine that whatever it is I've forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird.
What kind of bird? Elisabeth said.
A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You'll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it to tight, and I let it sleep. And that's that. — Ali Smith

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. — James Hervey

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

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

We have forensic psychiatrists who try to draw a line between those who are sick and those who are criminal, and they bend and twist the truth to make it fit into their world of theoretical models. — Jo Nesbo

Be true to what you said on paper. — Martin Luther King Jr.