Tino Sehgal Quotes

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.

Art makes people smile, brings people together.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'

I love talking to strangers and absorb their life experiences.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

It's true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That's what it's all about.

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk awhile, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apologize, That's a reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's cooperation. And all these ations added up Make civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?)