“I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.” Quote by Aleksandra Mir
“I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.” PeopleIfsRunningDepending On Others Author:Aleksandra Mir
“You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCommonPicks Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.” MenHas BeensArtWantedComfortableTraditionLandscapeAffected Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.” ThinkingWellsRunningNuclearDisasterThese DaysZoneWildlifeBreedingChernobyl Author:Aleksandra Mir
“National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.” WorldNeedsWholeActorsSeaStageDramaAreasWhole WorldParksProtectedZoosNational ParksActivate Author:Aleksandra Mir
“The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.” Has BeensCultureEffortPiecesObjectsHugeInventionVarietyLandscapePlanesAviationTechnologicalSculptureCatalyst Author:Aleksandra Mir
“The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.” KnowsMomentsLostRight NowGroundedConcorde Author:Aleksandra Mir
“The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.” PeopleThinkingHandsCultureSpaceFantasyBuildingMoonProgramChairsSpace ProgramCorsetsHairdosFuture Thinking Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."” PeopleThinkingBeautifulNextStepsMoonErasJealousInventingNext StepsConcorde Author:Aleksandra Mir