--- title: "1 Feeling Trust Quotes By Amy Sillman" description: "1 Feeling Trust quotes by Amy Sillman. Plus more from Amy Sillman and more Feeling Trust sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/amy-sillman-31202_feelings_in-my-work-we-re-not-looking-at-an-icon_72454.jpg" --- > [In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/in-my-work-we-re-not-looking-at-an-icon-we-re-not-looking-at-a-sign/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/amy-sillman-31202_feelings_in-my-work-we-re-not-looking-at-an-icon_72454.jpg) ## More by Amy Sillman > [In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/in-my-work-we-re-not-looking-at-an-icon-we-re-not-looking-at-a-sign/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/the-works-have-to-look-like-they-re-confident-but-they-also-have-to/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [I'm in this process of trying to create a free space. Like an open field, where figure and ground are in very ambivalent, complex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/i-m-in-this-process-of-trying-to-create-a-free-space-like-an-open/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/that-s-the-huge-problem-with-an-abstract-painting-when-are-you-done/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [I made silk screens of my drawings. I could add a drawing that was made with a machine or digitally to a drawing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/i-made-silk-screens-of-my-drawings-i-could-add-a-drawing-that-was/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/i-want-to-expand-the-question-of-when-something-is-done-i-want-to-vex/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/i-ve-never-read-a-book-on-shape-i-ve-read-books-on-gesture-i-ve-read/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/at-some-point-i-get-a-weird-feeling-and-that-s-when-i-know-it-s-done/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/all-accidents-and-experiments-and-discoveries-are-what-my-work-is/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/who-would-be-an-artist-that-was-perfectly-happy-maybe-nowadays-but/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/a-lot-of-what-i-do-in-my-work-is-taking-a-thing-and-either-washing-it/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/you-can-make-a-beautiful-thing-but-there-s-no-problem-in-it-i-like/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/every-painting-i-ve-ever-done-has-like-100-paintings-under-it/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/being-bad-discomfort-with-your-body-bad-self-image-all-those-things/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) > [I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-sillman/i-make-paintings-really-slowly-because-i-change-them-and-change-them/) [Amy Sillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-sillman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feeling-trust/amy-sillman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Feeling Trust Quotes By Amy Sillman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. 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