35 Quotes by Rashid Johnson

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.