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"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
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"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."
Decision-Making
"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
Balance
"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."
Content
"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."
Media
"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."
Decision-making
"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."
Expression
"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."
Decision-Making
"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."
Art
"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
"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
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"You cannot truly know pleasure without pain. You cannot truly know strength without weakness. You cannot truly know joy without sorrow. You cannot truly know hope without despair."
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"In light, there is no darkness; and in darkness, there is no light."
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"As with most things in life, a healthy balance will keep us on the right path. To avoid too much eye contact or too little, seek to create a comfortable mix. It is generally encouraged to use more eye contact when you are listening and less when you are speaking."
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"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."
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"The effect of overworking, we miss sacred moments."
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"Relax, Recreate and Refresh!"
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"There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness."
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"Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness."
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