I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions us deep down. Then if you bring it slowly to the surface, it's full of possibilities.


Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.670

Jannis Kounellis Quotes

I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions ...

I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions ...

I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions ...

I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions ...