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If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.