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

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.

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

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

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.

if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Everything is ideal to its parent.