I make myself into a new image in order to produce new images.

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.