Why must art be static?

— Alexander Calder

Gregor Schneider realisiert für die Ruhrtriennale im Kunstmuseum Bochum eine neue Arbeit. Unter dem Titel KUNSTMUSEUM setzt er sich mit dem Ort und der Funktion des Kunstmuseums auseinander. Nach der Absage seines für das Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg vorgesehenen Raumkunst- werkes totlast durch den Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Duisburg ist die kurzfristige Realisierung in Bochum ein großer Erfolg.

— Ruhrtriennale; KUNSTMUSEUM

Anna Karina

Le Petit Soldat, dir. by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960

You look nicer without makeup.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

From Hamburg; with love ...

I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

— Charles Bukowski

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

— Hermann Hesse

She recalled the previous day and, smiling, she realized how things are connected. She felt that these events aren't connected by accident, but there's an indescribably beautiful meaning bridging them.

— László Krasznahorkai

Sátántangó, directed by Béla Tarr in 1994

From Paris; with love ...

I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

— Charles Bukowski

Joana Linda | 2012

Intimacy is not entirely physical. In fact, it can have no physical interaction at all. For an intimate relationship to take place, allow someone into your thoughts. Let them hold and caress your feelings. Let them be intimate with your mind. Allow for the emotional intimacy to be the reason for passion to be bred. Now that is intimacy that is long lasting.

— Upendo Kupita Juu

Helge Schneider | Buddy Casino

Es gibt Reis, Baby, Helge Schneider & Hardcore, 1993

Sag' Deinen Eltern nichts davon, es ist besser so.

When we don't understand someone, we fall in love with them.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Alberto Contador quits the 101st Tour de France ...

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

— Anselm Kiefer

It is with great sadness that the gallery
announces the passing of On Kawara.

— David Zwirner

I AM STILL ALIVE

On Kawara

* January 2, 1933 - † June, 2014

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Kunst als Raum. Raum als Umgebung. Umgebung als Ereignis. Ereignis als Bild. Bild als Leben. Leben als Kunst.

— Christoph Schlingensief

Late Spring, dir. by Yasujirō Ozu in 1949

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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Frans Zwartjes | Spectator | 1970

Stadt Duisburg lehnt Kunstinstallation von Gregor Schneider für die Ruhrtriennale im Lehmbruck Museum ab.

— Ruhrtriennale; Pressemitteilung

Stay strong; Tour de France 2014

It's part of the experience of walking around the space in which the art appears — you implicate yourself in the space, and the experience is in you, not in the frame or on the wall.

— Richard Serra

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

— Charles Bukowski

Ruth Amarante | Zollverein Kohlenwäsche

Pina, dir. by Wim Wenders in 2011

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You are she who is not. But I am he who is.

— Nostalghia, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1983

You can't find intimacy — you can't find home — when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You're running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

— Junot Diaz

From București with love ...

Valentina Vidrașcu

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

— Walter Benjamin

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I don't like the idea of understanding a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

— Federico Fellini

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Isabelle Adjani | Bruno Ganz

Nosferatu, directed by Werner Herzog in 1979

There is no other aesthetic problem than that of the insertion of art into everyday life. The more our daily life appears standardized, stereotyped and subject to an accelerated reproduction of objects of consumption, the more art must be injected into it in order to extract that little difference which plays simultaneously between other levels of repetition, and even in order to make the two extremes resonate — namely, that habitual series of consumption and the instinctual series of destruction and death.

— Gilles Deleuze

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

— Maya Angelou