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I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Morning Wake Up Think About Wake Up

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Work Year Nothing Than Same Artist Deeper

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Everything Somehow Velocity Connected

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

Art Science Architecture Breakfast Club Meets Brutally Salon Where Literature Which Century Founded Early Basically

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

More Kitchen Most Than Any Famous Gallery Show Museum

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Country National Situation One Country Paris Directors Open Boundaries Opened Since Beyond Another Been La Up Very Goes Move Which Landscape Based Internationally Programme Museum

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. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Art Time School Looking Visiting High High School My Time Studios Around Artists Galleries Europe Traveled University Museums

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

Quality Year Our Immaterial Once Directed More More And More Through Rituals Towards Economy Sort Quantity Enable Glut Passing Cultural Again Forms Turn Produce Us Require Each Functions Growth

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. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Day Every Day Few Every Interviews Kid Record Since Hours Talked Because Always Doing Been Forgetting Artists Process Against

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. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Kid Would Obscure Knew Curator Quite Want Then Notion Even

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. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Me Happy People Important Think Most Important People Makes Artists The Most Important Want Them Then Planet Really Helpful Helps Utility

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. Harold Bloom

World Better Worse More Does Get Gets Just Place

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Harold Bloom

Matters Tell Critics Finest Cry Read Hears Human Full Why

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. Harold Bloom

Take Oxymoron Successful Therapy

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. Harold Bloom

Me School Negative Sense Awareness Think Thinking Philosophical Through Mode Common Which Deconstruction Theology Technical

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. Harold Bloom

Love You Passion Criticism Reading Fall Starts Must Adolescence Poems Come Real Real Passion Your Twenties Even Start

Shakespeare is universal. Harold Bloom

Shakespeare Universal

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