In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
