Sophie Calle

For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,…

— Sophie Calle

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my…

— Sophie Calle

I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with…

— Sophie Calle

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for…

— Sophie Calle

My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's…

— Sophie Calle

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

— Sophie Calle

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe…

— Sophie Calle

I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in…

— Sophie Calle

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

— Sophie Calle

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

— Sophie Calle

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I…

— Sophie Calle

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

— Sophie Calle

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the…

— Sophie Calle

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

— Sophie Calle

I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style…

— Sophie Calle