You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least on…

- Lucas Samaras

The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.

- Lucas Samaras

I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I could destroy it without damaging myself in t…

- Lucas Samaras

The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

- Lucas Samaras

I'm looking back at what I did and how it works. In a sense I'm waiting to see how people will respond. I'm waiting to see how you respond, without a…

- Lucas Samaras

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 a…

- 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, bu…

- Lucas Samaras

I am my own investigation territory.

- Lucas Samaras

Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, excep…

- Lucas Samaras