39 Quotes by Doug Aitken

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.