Don't ask them for their reasons. Just ask them for their feelings.

— Virginia Woolf

Installationsansicht, Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst

Mischa Kuball | mies-mies | 2006/07

Though the sculptures are static, the mind of the viewer charges along vectorial paths to search out associations, depicted and implied. Like the [mathematical] equation there is unity, balance, and a captivating logic that holds the viewer on a course of discovery.

James Reineking, Physical Lines of Thought

— Michael H. Smith

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Ich freue mich, das Museum samt Park umzugraben. Uns im Museum in eine ›abseitige Unterwelt‹ zu führen. Ganz nah den vergessenen Gräbern tief in der Erde werden wir plötzlich wieder auf die Welt geworfen. Wir werden uns in den Armen liegen, wieder tief Luft holen. Was für ein toller Park. Wie schön ist unser Leben.

— Gregor Schneider; an Heiner Goebbels

Was die Ruhrtriennale auszeichnet, sind die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Künstlern und Räumen. Sie ermöglichen uns starke künstlerische Erfahrungen und haben für mich oberste Priorität; wo sonst hat man die Freiheit, kompromisslos etwas entstehen zu lassen. Viele festivalmachende Kollegen und Künstler aus aller Welt beneiden uns aber nicht nur um die unverwechsel- baren Räume und die Möglichkeiten, Kunst selbst produzieren zu können, sondern auch um unser Publikum, das großen Eindruck hinterlässt durch seine Neugierde, Offenheit, künstlerischen Wagemut und seine direkte Resonanz.

— Heiner Goebbels

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

— Marcel Proust

Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Monitored by MFP; the maximum force of the future ...

Mad Max; dir. by George Miller in 1979

There is no solution, because there is no problem.

— Marcel Duchamp

Francesca Woodman

Identities are formed at the unstable point where personal lives meet the narrative of history. Identity is an ever-unfinished conversation.

— Stuart Hall

When you watch my movies, please don't speculate. Just trust your eyes and listen to your heart.

— Béla Tarr

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

— John Steinbeck

Gregor Schneider | Black Dead End | 2006

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I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because romantic doesn't mean sugary. It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

— Catherine Breillat

This is how the world is, this is how humans are … Everything that exists must disappear. Now, our art is something that basically cannot be owned, cannot be purchased, cannot be kept. It is ephemeral, and therefore it is free — and it is beautiful.

— Christo

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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.

— Fernando Pessoa

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