47 Quotes by Marilyn Minter

You know when women look their best? When they're in love.

The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much crazier than art-world people. They are constantly trying to leech from the art world, but they will never be able to do what we do.

Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.

Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.

I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.

I work in a studio with lots of young people, most of whom are my former students. We delight in trading YouTube videos! We all stop working to watch them. I'm totally addicted to anything with kittens and puppies, but 'Very Scared Kid' is one of my favorites.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.