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Alva Noto Quotes

German - Artist | September 18, 1965 -

There is always room for coincidence.

Coincidence Always Room

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Decision Nothing Coincidence Every

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Time Art Me Interesting More Sound

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Alone Media Want Way Try Hard

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

Sound Lead Content Conclusions Like

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Work Creativity Questions Logic Come

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

Alone Stronger Sometimes Possible

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

Time Energy You Too Much Always Big

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Work I Am Space Create Question

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Balance Understanding Intellectual

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Sacrifice I Am Me Important Depth

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Yourself You Choose Go Open Limit

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