Vito Acconci Quotes

It’s not the bullet that kills you, it’s the hole.
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Bullets Holes Kills
I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside.
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Dog Hot Inside Wish
Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It’s almost as if I made the labor part of writing.
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Awkward Made Writing
Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it’s closed and it eventually dies.
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Alive Contradict Keep Space System Versa
I’m using my own person in pieces, but I’m trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I’m subjecting myself to a scheme.
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Pieces Trying Volition
[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other – but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.
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Cult Performances Personality
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.
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Art Cities Museums
Even though I always claimed that I didn’t want to write about something – once I wasn’t writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.
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Fiction Thinking Writing

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