- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always gone for a kind of perfection.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be - one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose - that's also front and center.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.
- Feminist
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- Nov 07, 2020