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. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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. But I've never read a book on what a shape is. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I made silk screens of my drawings. I could add a drawing that was made with a machine or digitally to a drawing that… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that.… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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.… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
