Orlan Quotes

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

I make myself into a new image in order to produce new images.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.