Brain Quote by Jessica Stockholder

I think what kids do is play.

— Jessica Stockholder

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects…

— Jessica Stockholder

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands…

— Jessica Stockholder

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages…

— Jessica Stockholder

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

— Jessica Stockholder

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

— Jessica Stockholder

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

— Jessica Stockholder

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the…

— Jessica Stockholder

I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced,…

— Jessica Stockholder

There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched…

— Jessica Stockholder

Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

— Jessica Stockholder