The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
...I started photographing myself, and found that I could see portions of myself that I had never seen before. Since I face just my face in the mirror, I know pretty much what it's like. When I see a side-view I'm not used to it, and find it peculiar... So, photographing myself and discovering unknown territories of my surface self… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share
If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I could destroy… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
I'm looking back at what I did and how it works. In a sense I'm waiting to see how people will respond. I'm waiting… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
