I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The thing I wondered about so much as a young artist, particularly when things weren't going well and I was really struggling,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
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… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The visual world has blown up, the world of writing has blown up; there's so much text online. Anyone and everyone can… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, "Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause." This was way before I was… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Your ringtone is so personal to you, but the fact is millions of other people have your ringtone. I really love that connection, and… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It's hard not to get blue, and I think… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.' — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
