Sophie Calle Quotes

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

Sophie Calle

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

Sophie Calle

#3. We walked through night until there was a poem.

Brenda Hillman

#4. In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Sophie Calle

#5. For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame ... it's the last thought in the process.

Sophie Calle

#6. I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.

Tom Brokaw

#7. I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

Patricia Moyes

#8. I thought being a good guy would be easier.

Kit Rocha

#9. I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

Sophie Calle

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

Sophie Calle

#11. I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

Sophie Calle

#12. It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

Guy Pearce

#13. The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

Charlie Pierce

#14. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

Sophie Calle

#15. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

Sophie Calle

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

Sophie Calle

#17. My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.

Sophie Calle

#18. but strangely enough, his eyebrows and eyebrows were intact.

Arkady Strugatsky

#19. There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

James Cook

#20. I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

Sophie Calle

#21. You can't walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don't want it now or ever again. Don't want to hear the word or wear its scars.

Ellen Hopkins

#22. I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

Sophie Calle

#23. The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

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

Sophie Calle

#25. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood

#26. I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

Moby