"What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Vito Acconci

#Art Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.”

Source : "The revival of Tory philosophy" by John Casey, www.spectator.co.uk. March 14, 2007.
“Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.18, A&C Black
“Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.”
“I do think that all of us think in poems.”
“Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.”
“I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lydia". "Beetlejuice", www.imdb.com. 1988.
“[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney who specializes in the fashion industry, says if you're a foreign model with a work visa, it's unusual to have to return to your home country that frequently.”

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