...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message. Laurie Simmons More Quotes by Laurie Simmons More Quotes From Laurie Simmons I had grown up in a world dominated by women - I had aunts and sisters and great-aunts - and I just felt like I lived in a completely female world. Laurie Simmons just like women world I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously. Laurie Simmons me man father world I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person. Laurie Simmons never myself me proud From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine glass. I've always gotten the most out of it. I love it! Laurie Simmons always plastic time love I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture. Laurie Simmons could something never done I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents. Laurie Simmons more parents children way I don't like touching things that are the curatorial flavor of the month. Laurie Simmons month things like flavor I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor. Laurie Simmons say always artist soul Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. Laurie Simmons movies everything see past I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and process art, and it was very important not to tell a story. If you told a story, when I was a young artist and first came to N.Y., it was, like, an embarrassing way to make art. Laurie Simmons age work time art I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story. Laurie Simmons thoughts down story never I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child. Laurie Simmons woman mother world art There's part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be - one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose - that's also front and center. Laurie Simmons color hair culture way My subject has always been women. And I don't want to sound, like, preposterously idealistic, but I would like, in my lifetime, to experience a world where women, all kind of women, can connect and support each other. Laurie Simmons women support experience world
