Lucas Samaras Quotes

#1. If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

Lucas Samaras

#2. I am my own investigation territory.

Lucas Samaras

#3. Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.

Lucas Samaras

#4. The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.

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#5. You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here and you are suffering or having joy. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

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#6. 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