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 t…

- Vito Acconci

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,…

- Vito Acconci

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the vie…

- Vito Acconci

Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along…

- Vito Acconci

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

- Vito Acconci

Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's be…

- Vito Acconci

Architecture is not about space but about time.

- Vito Acconci

I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if you…

- Vito Acconci

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 sub…

- Vito Acconci