I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
