Willing Quotes by Laurie Simmons

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you…

— Laurie Simmons

I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said…

— Laurie Simmons

I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, "Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause." This was way before I was…

— Laurie Simmons

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that…

— Laurie Simmons

Your ringtone is so personal to you, but the fact is millions of other people have your ringtone. I really love that connection, and…

— Laurie Simmons

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

— Laurie Simmons

Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.

— Laurie Simmons

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

— Laurie Simmons

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It's hard not to get blue, and I think…

— Laurie Simmons

My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'

— Laurie Simmons

The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving…

— Laurie Simmons