It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort… — 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… — 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… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I always thought, I can't waste time, I have to do work. I also thought that I was slower than other people,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — 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