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

- Annette Messager

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 an…

- Annette Messager

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real…

- 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 s…

- Annette Messager

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

- Annette Messager

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…

- Annette Messager

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

- Annette Messager

Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetitio…

- Annette Messager

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy…

- Annette Messager