14 Laurie Simmons Quotes for You to Enjoy

Laurie Simmons

American Artist

Born: Oct 3, 1949

Always Art Artist Me World You

Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono

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. Laurie Simmons

Art Great You School Long Ways Attached Long Island New Implying Comfortable Island Real Stigma Real Artist Coming Were Art School York Artist Crafty New York Suburbia Found Neck

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

Say Like Liked Particularly Nor Dolls Them Ever

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

Home Mother Engineer Father Say Housewife Still Dentist

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

Love Believe How Am Doing Acting Fun

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

Work Funny Fashion You Own Out Goes Artist Your

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. Laurie Simmons

Life Game Money Space My Life First Picture Big Doors Other Sign Response Critical Had Like Sort Acclaim Were Dollar Just Artists Door Newspaper Game Show Show Two Imagined

Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job? Laurie Simmons

Job Glamour Knew Artist Being Who

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents. Laurie Simmons

Parents Way More Than Children Influenced

I don't like touching things that are the curatorial flavor of the month. Laurie Simmons

Month Touching Like Flavor Things

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor. Laurie Simmons

Soul Say Always Artist

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. Laurie Simmons

Past Complete Everything See Indie Like Artists Experimental Movies Present

I can't even relate to the idea of raising a feminist. Laurie Simmons

Relate Idea Feminist Even Raising

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