44 Quotes by Laurie Simmons

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.

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

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

I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and process art, and it was very important not to tell a story. If you told a story, when I was a young artist and first came to N.Y., it was, like, an embarrassing way to make art.

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

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

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

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

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