There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action. — Lisa Yuskavage Action Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself. — Lisa Yuskavage Fingers Copy Share Image
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage Art 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Feels 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Bleak 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Aliens 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Art 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Back when 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Areas Copy Share Image
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. — Lisa Yuskavage Art Copy Share Image
I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who… — Lisa Yuskavage Art Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I… — Lisa Yuskavage Bother Copy Share Image
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage Art Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If… — Lisa Yuskavage Amount 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Breasts 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… — Lisa Yuskavage Accepting Copy Share Image
