Annette Messager quotes
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“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
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“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”
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“I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.”
-- Annette MessagerSource : Interview with Frances Colpitt, www.artpace.org.
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“I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.”
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“At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid”
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“[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.”
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“[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.”
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“Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in ***** is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.”
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“I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.”
-- Annette Messager
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
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