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Top 20 Olafur Eliasson Quotes (2025 Update)

Olafur Eliasson Quote: “Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.”

1. “Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.”

2. “For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

3. “I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.”

4. “Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.”

5. “I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.”

6. “My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I don’t think you need to be so result-oriented when you’re trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.”

7. “I don’t think you need to be so result-oriented when you’re trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural – it’s a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.”

8. “I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural – it’s a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.”

9. “I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.”

— Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”

10. “I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.”

11. “Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.”

12. “By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.”

13. “Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.”

14. “If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.”

15. “I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.”

— Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.”

16. “I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it’s becoming much more of a conventional European city.”

17. “In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it’s becoming much more of a conventional European city.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”

18. “I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “I don’t know a single collector or museum director who says: ‘Oh, he’s on a list, so I think I’ll buy something of his.’ The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.”

19. “I don’t know a single collector or museum director who says: ‘Oh, he’s on a list, so I think I’ll buy something of his.’ The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.”

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Olafur Eliasson Quote: “It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.”

20. “It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.”

— Olafur Eliasson

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