I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in … - Annette Messager

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I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs. . . The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.

Annette Messager

I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight. . . In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.

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Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

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Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it. . . . I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

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I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.

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I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it. ' Then I realized that was stupid

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