Top 15 Abel Azcona Quotes

I don't currently have any kind of family and I have had to learn to live each of my artistic and vital processes in total solitude.

I fervently believe that art must be a tool with which the artist and the visitor or spectator must be intimate. In some occasions, with the approval of the visitor and in others, without it. It is the artist's responsibility to transform the viewer who visits an exhibition of his in a museum or gallery. It would be a total irresponsibility to allow the visitor to leave the museum, the exhibition or the performative experience in the same way that he has entered.

My life and work feed back to such an extent that creating is living, and living is not possible without creating.

I am not as afraid of anything as myself.

All my extreme movements, all of them, are allied with madness.

Binarism or God are not concepts to deconstruct, they are concepts to destroy.

I have always found the unhappiness of people attractive, because if not, I would not trust them.

Abortion is one of the greatest measures for child protection.

I was born on April 1, 1988. Birth certificate 2841329, dated December 2, 1991, proves that I legally did not exist until I was about four years of age.

Each of my works is a regression to the past. This way it becomes tangible. Having the ability to expose and revisit it, allows us an update, reconstruction and critical look.

Losing a mother seems to me one of the cruelest acts of nature. I have lost three.

How is it necessary to be born just for the sake of being born? I should never have been born.

I will never forget my mother's words when she told us that before giving birth she tried to abort me up to three times. For me it is the greatest act of love that no one will ever do for me.

My mother is as protagonist of my work as myself. My mother, my work and I are something indissoluble.

Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis.