I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share
