Annette Messager famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
-- Annette Messager

#Mean #Healing #Artist
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.
-- Annette Messager

#Believe #Artist #Sometimes
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 Messager

#Arms #Faces #Photograph
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
-- Annette Messager

#Desire #Always Believe
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
-- Annette Messager

#Stupid #Men #Proud
[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.
-- Annette Messager

#Loss #Animal #Love Is
[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.
-- Annette Messager

#Photography #Real #Writing
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 clichÃ©s of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.
-- Annette Messager

#Real #Body #Repetition
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

#Photography #Lying #Issues

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Annette Messager famous quotes

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