When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn’t be a ‘real artist’, so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
We don’t have real hours and we don’t have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It’s transgressive in such a personal way. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
Like all artists, I’m a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture. Laurie Simmons Read Quote
