Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955), p. 76
“Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy. ”
Emily Wasik asked Isa here: You once said in an interview, 'I want to animate the viewers, hold a mirror up to them.' Why do you believe it's important to put yourself [as an artist] in the viewer's shoes and create art that transforms them?
after 2010, Isa Genzken, the artist who doesn't do interviews' (2014)
“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
About the song "I'm a Loser"; sometimes misquoted as "Half of me thinks I am a loser, the other half thinks I am God Almighty."
Playboy interview (1980)
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 367)
“I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”
“Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.”
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
