At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I … - Sophie Calle

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The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

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 side profit.

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

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

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I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.

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I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

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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 the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame. . . it's the last thought in the process.

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