SANAA does not begin with imagining a form, but with imagining how light and wind flow through a window and a door.

— Ryue Nishizawa

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional – a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

— Bill Viola

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

James Turrell | Spread | 2003

Repetition changes nothing in the object perceived, but it does change something in the mind which contemplates it.

— Gilles Deleuze

sqq. Cobra Verde

[Andrei] Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

— Ingmar Bergman

Seit 26 Jahren baue ich Räume, die ich im sogenannten Haus ur auf der Unterheydener Strasse 12 begonnen habe. Hier ist Verdoppelung die Vorgehensweise: Noch einmal – gleich davor, gleich darunter, gleich darin, das, was schon da ist, oder etwas, das dort plausibel ist. Verdoppelung bestätigt bei mir das Vorhandene, nicht als Deklaration oder Hinweis, sondern als Form, in einer sehr aufwendigen Praxis. Das Vorhandene oder das potentiell Vorhandene werden nicht neu erfunden, sondern von Grund auf rekonstruiert. Die Verdoppelung des Bestehenden legitimiert die Arbeit in der einfachsten möglichen Weise. Mich interessiert dieser Leerlauf von Handlung.

— Gregor Schneider

sqq. It's all Rheydt, Kolkata 2011

In Atelier with Gregor Schneider

Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects […]. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

— Charles Eames

Carl Andre | Rise | 2011

I wanna talk to you about another world, a completely different world - a world in which art had a meaning that had nothing to do with what art has for us, here - now. A place where art really was important - where it really made a difference - where it really defined with how people dealt with all the difficulties of their lives.

— Richard Nonas

I'm a firm believer that you can never establish the rhythm of a film in the editing room. I believe all the rhythm is in the shooting, in the way you use the camera. A director is only a lion-tamer of the wild accidents and coincidences that come along.

— Werner Herzog

Gerhard Richter | White | 2006

A painting by Newman is finally no simpler than one by Cézanne.

— Donald Judd

Francesca Woodman