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Vito Acconci

"Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go."

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

Vito Acconci

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“By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.”
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“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage
“The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted”
“I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.”
“I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.”

Source : Source: www.bullz-eye.com
“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.”
“Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.”

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