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Marilyn Minter
American Artist
Born: 1948
Art Me People Women Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use. Marilyn Minter
Good School Old Thought Tool Say Good Old Days Photoshop Days Around Came Hear Died Heaven Oh Just Artists Want Old Days Old School Use Puke
I really believe that women run the art world. Marilyn Minter
Art Women World Believe Run Art World Really
My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on. Marilyn Minter
Life Work World My Life Picture Looking Live Our Our Lives Constantly About Something Make Sort Always Overlooked Going Aware Lives Need
All my work is about how it feels to look. Marilyn Minter
Work All My Work About Feels Look How
I think there's still this huge glass ceiling for women owning sexuality. And especially young women. If you're an old lady like me, I can do anything now. Marilyn Minter
Me You Women Old Young Think Sexuality Glass Like Still Huge Ceiling Owning Lady Anything Young Women Old Lady Now
I love the idea of making images of the parts of the body that we all have but that no one pays attention to, like the soft area underneath your nose. Marilyn Minter
Love Area No-One Attention Idea Like Underneath Parts Making Nose Body Your Pays Images Soft
We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated. Marilyn Minter
Sad Beautiful Me Women Complicated Unfair Too Shame Part Very Trying Mean Really Thinks
People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make. Marilyn Minter
Generation People Money Heroic Collecting Would My Generation Guy Make Boy Lot Used Paying Third
I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen. Marilyn Minter
Else Say Something Had Knew Nobody Nobody Else Always Listen Wanted Even
I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really. Marilyn Minter
Before Breath Counting Just Anything Really Meditate
I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines. Marilyn Minter
Internet Books Kinds Magazines Voracious Reader Want Information
I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore! Marilyn Minter
You Somewhere Saw Say About Something Allowed Perfection Always Exist Anymore Flaw Even
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. Marilyn Minter
Art Fashion People World Will Constantly Able Superficial More Never Art World Times Than Trying Crazier Much Fashion World
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. Marilyn Minter
Work Perspective Threads Both Through Tidy Female Were Very Warhol
I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next. Marilyn Minter
Racism Progress Feminism Young Environment Since Been South Next
In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist. Marilyn Minter
People Vision Thought Chasing Think Else Late Out Nobody Nobody Else Like Feminist Room Really
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. Marilyn Minter
Work People Videos Young YouTube Addicted Kid Favorites Puppies Scared Totally Delight Kittens Students Studio Most Trading Lots Very Stop Anything Former Young People Them Working Whom Watch
I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain. Marilyn Minter
Video Games Training Way Since Been Brain Video Games Playing
Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career. Marilyn Minter
Draw Admired Had She Learned How Her Copied Career
Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure. Marilyn Minter
Art Pleasure Visual About Taken Over
I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to. Marilyn Minter
Me People Listening Become Before Nothing Say Though Tell Had Blew Up Listen Artists Want Themselves Who Even Now Bomb Watched
If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive. Marilyn Minter
You Will Later Say Alive Something Sooner Sooner Or Later Still Heard Really Lucky
My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them. Marilyn Minter
Philosophy Easily Finds Entire Take Students He He Or She Come She Opposite Effortless Artist Often Process Them Really Certain Should Skills Use Notion Choose Teaching Based

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