Laurie Simmons

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

— Laurie Simmons

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

— 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…

— Laurie Simmons

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

— Laurie Simmons

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

— 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…

— 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.…

— Laurie Simmons

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

— Laurie Simmons

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

— Laurie Simmons

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.

— Laurie Simmons

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

— Laurie Simmons

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

— Laurie Simmons

From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone…

— Laurie Simmons

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

— Laurie Simmons

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's…

— Laurie Simmons

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

— Laurie Simmons

Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job?

— Laurie Simmons

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about…

— Laurie Simmons

The thing I wondered about so much as a young artist, particularly when things weren't going well and I was really struggling,…

— Laurie Simmons

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

— Laurie Simmons