Laurie Simmons Quotes

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Laurie Simmons

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 3, 1949

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

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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

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I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

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

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

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I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

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

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

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When I had my first show at Artists Space in 1979, I imagined my life like game show. There were two doors: one door had a big dollar sign on it, and the other just had sort of a blurry picture of a newspaper - the money door or the critical response and acclaim door.

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Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job?

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My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.

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I had grown up in a world dominated by women - I had aunts and sisters and great-aunts - and I just felt like I lived in a completely female world.

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I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.

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

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From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine glass. I've always gotten the most out of it. I love it!

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

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I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

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I don't like touching things that are the curatorial flavor of the month.

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

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

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