“At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.” PeopleKindArtistFeltAreasMadRateExcitementTouched Author:Lucas Samaras
“If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.” IfsGivingHumansWellsMayDoeArtArtistSexHuman BeingsGiving UpArt IsEroticInvolvementMessy Author:Lucas Samaras
