I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment,… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing,… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight...… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy.… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.” — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
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