The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think people like to have everything be perfectly morally clear. When the lines get blurred it worries them. I'm not worried.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people,… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
