Tino Sehgal Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.”

“Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?”

“We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.”

“What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'”

“Attention is the material I work with.”

“I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.”

“I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.”

“I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.”

“The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.”

“As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.”