Artist Quotes by Lisa Yuskavage

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

— Lisa Yuskavage

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or…

— Lisa Yuskavage

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

— Lisa Yuskavage

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the…

— Lisa Yuskavage

It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how…

— Lisa Yuskavage

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

— Lisa Yuskavage

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ...…

— Lisa Yuskavage

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

— Lisa Yuskavage

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage