Tino Sehgal Quotes

• Attention is the material I work with.

  Tino Sehgal

  Attention, Materials

  "Tino Sehgal's Turbine Hall commission: 'Attention is what I work with'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2012.

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• The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.

  Tino Sehgal

  Writing, People, Collaboration

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• Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

  Tino Sehgal

  Two, Four, Dimensions

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• One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

  Tino Sehgal

  Arte, Éxito, Gente

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• I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

  Tino Sehgal

  Art, Entertainment, Done

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• I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

  Tino Sehgal

  Mira

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• My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

  Tino Sehgal

  Children, Father, Pakistan

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