Your ringtone is so personal to you, but the fact is millions of other people have your ringtone. I really love that connection, and call me crazy, but I find the iPhone ringtones super melodic and very danceable. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
My subject has always been women. And I don’t want to sound, like, preposterously idealistic, but I would like, in my lifetime, to experience a world where women, all kind of women, can connect and support each other. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
There’s part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be – one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose – that’s also front and center. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I’ve always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I’ve never written a story. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and process art, and it was very important not to tell a story. If you told a story, when I was a young artist and first came to N.Y., it was, like, an embarrassing way to make art. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
It’s funny: when you’re an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I’ve always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine glass. I’ve always gotten the most out of it. I love it! Laurie Simmons Read Quote
