Lisa Yuskavage Quotes

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  • I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

    Way   Aliens   Painting  
    Interview with Todd Solondz, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2015.
  • I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

    Moving   Hopeful   Film  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.

    Sight   Hands   Missing  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

    Art   Important   Polite  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.

    Block   Artist   Worry  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

    Nice   Artist   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

    Work Out   Way   Kind  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

    New York   Book   Reading  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

    Trying   Fingers  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

    Art   Thinking   Way  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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