Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

- Sophie Calle

For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through th…

- Sophie Calle

My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about i…

- Sophie Calle

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

- Sophie Calle

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

- Sophie Calle

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

- Sophie Calle

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a sid…

- Sophie Calle

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without t…

- Sophie Calle

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photog…

- Sophie Calle