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. — 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 to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through… — 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
![“[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 was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)” quote by Vito Acconci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee2/vito-acconci-13895_art_photography-was-necessary-to-make-my-pla_205941.jpg)
