Vito Acconci Quotes

Architecture is not about space but about time.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

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.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

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.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.