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" Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity. "

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" Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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" I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. "

" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "

" I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time. "

" I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted. "

" For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game. "

" At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock. "

" Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream. "

" Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. "

" I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. "

" I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art. "

" I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful. "

" Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series. "

" Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions. "

" For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas. "

" To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists. "

" The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally. "

" I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. "

" I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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" My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work. "

" To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. "

" One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. "

" When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways. "

" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "

" To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art. "

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" Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone. "

" My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it. "

" I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years. "

" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "

" The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. "