Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists,… — Annette Messager Art 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… — Annette Messager Arms Copy Share Image
[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done -… — Annette Messager Acts of love 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… — Annette Messager Behinds Copy Share Image
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. — Annette Messager Always believe 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… — Annette Messager Alive 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… — Annette Messager Body Copy Share Image
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.” — Annette Messager Art 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 Felt Copy Share Image