[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside. — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
The kind of influence you want is a much deeper influence. It's like empowerment. Things are like this, but what if they were like… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
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