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I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
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One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.
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I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.
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There is always room for coincidence.
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Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
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I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.
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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
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Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.
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I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
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You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.
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The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
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It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
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It is such a complex matter we live within it is impossible to track logic and decision making really so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
Alva Noto
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Michael Korda
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
John Lone
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt
My art became very public.
Joey Skaggs
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
Julie Taymor
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
Kim Cattrall
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
Allen Tate
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
Jane Haddam
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien Hirst
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert Smithson
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
Felix de Weldon
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin