I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo. Molly Crabapple More Quotes by Molly Crabapple More Quotes From Molly Crabapple The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable. Molly Crabapple lookingfeelmoneytime I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. Molly Crabapple fashionworkloveart I've become increasingly agoraphobic. Molly Crabapple increasinglybecome I travel so much that when I'm not traveling, I'm just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone. Molly Crabapple leavejustseetravel I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now. Molly Crabapple womenmenpastart Art is much more confined by materials than writing is. Molly Crabapple thanmorewritingart Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon. Molly Crabapple greatwomenmenfather I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself. Molly Crabapple bestmyselfteacherpeople My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people. Molly Crabapple iphonelifepeopleway My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban. Molly Crabapple real-namenamejenniferreal I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island. Molly Crabapple farislanduplong I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones. Molly Crabapple conflictartistworldtravel When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest. Molly Crabapple professionalinsideyoupeople When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people. Molly Crabapple livenewyoupeople You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw. Molly Crabapple yourownyouway I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year. Molly Crabapple streetyeargameartist The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. Molly Crabapple viewyouproblemart No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more. Molly Crabapple imageevermorepainting The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art. Molly Crabapple whichgalleryworkart
