3,292 Quotes About New-york

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.