Olafur Eliasson Quotes

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

When I look into the future and where I'd like to live, I'll say Germany because I grew up there and like the discipline the people have. But my background is from Zonguldak in Turkey. I'm there a lot.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.

Since I moved to the U.K., it has been ten years almost, I have never had any issue. My boy, Jan, was born in London and people have been great to me. I have been really happy living here.