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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Science

Breakfast

Art

" 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'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least. "

" 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. "

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

" During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. "

" Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. "

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

" When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew. "

" At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival. "

" 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. "

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

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Power

Think

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

" 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

Unusual

House

" 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. "

" For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life. "

" 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. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Economy

Growth

" I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. "

" I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. "

" I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. "

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

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