My face is my passport.
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.
Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
