I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested… — Martine Syms Copy Share
There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going… — Martine Syms Copy Share
