14 Quotes by Alva Noto

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.