"I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme."

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Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

Vito Acconci

#Trying Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Volition Quotes

“Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.”
“Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.43
“I think the most important thing for any driver is to know that he's getting equality of equipment and priority.”
“Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.”
“Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.”
“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.”

Source : Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)
“Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.”
“I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand....”

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