Arkansas Quote by Shea Hembrey

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

— Shea Hembrey

My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance,…

— Shea Hembrey

I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your…

— Shea Hembrey

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

— Shea Hembrey

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's…

— Shea Hembrey

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I…

— Shea Hembrey

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an…

— Shea Hembrey

How do you show what's not there? How do you show energy?

— Shea Hembrey

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

— Shea Hembrey

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and…

— Shea Hembrey

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

— Shea Hembrey