Tino Sehgal Quotes

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

A thing that has no value does not exist.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.