I feel like my only safety is in being totally true to myself.

I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'

My husband and I are two people who never thought we'd be married.

I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things.

It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact.