Happenstance Quotes by Ellen Gallagher

I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

— Ellen Gallagher

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible…

— Ellen Gallagher

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I…

— Ellen Gallagher

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

— Ellen Gallagher

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

— Ellen Gallagher

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

— Ellen Gallagher

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

— Ellen Gallagher

Regardless of your support, you need to make work.

— Ellen Gallagher

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things…

— Ellen Gallagher

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

— Ellen Gallagher

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on…

— Ellen Gallagher