Olafur Eliasson Quotes

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Life for me is about movement.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.