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.

- Orlan

Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the de…

- Orlan

I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, wh…

- Orlan

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

- Orlan

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.

- Orlan

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of pornography for some people, and f…

- Orlan

I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a mas…

- Orlan

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

- Orlan

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

- Orlan