Ragnar Kjartansson Quotes
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!
What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.
I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.
I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.
I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.
