Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you’re 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that’s seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. ‘Shell Game’ is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
I’m an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for ‘Vice Magazine,’ and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones. Molly Crabapple Read Quote
