I think if you're gonna run your mouth at somebody and they call you out on it - that's it!
Attention is the material I work with.
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that. . . Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;-the philosophers and the scientists.
If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.