The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. 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
