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We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Way , Real , Rules , Boss


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.

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  You , Long , Great , Art


I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Place , Painting , Exercise , Limits


My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Me , Say , Well , Someone


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

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Say , Like , Them , Dolls


I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Always , Kind , Perfection , Gone


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

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Home , Say , Father , Mother


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

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Love , I Am , Fun , Believe


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

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  You , Work , Funny , Fashion


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.

Author: Laurie Simmons - American Artist
  Life , Money , Game , My Life


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