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.

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.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.