59 Quotes by Joey Skaggs

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information.

I want people to be amused or amazed but fooled.

The issues of my performances vary, but most of the questions buried in the work remain the same.

I mean, who did they think they were dealing with?

I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.

In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church.