Quotes from Sophie Calle

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

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.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

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.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

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