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 and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.
Annette MessagerAt first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
Annette MessagerI have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
Annette MessagerI 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 identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.
Annette Messager