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.

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.

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.

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.

There is always room for coincidence.

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.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

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?

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.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

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.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

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.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!