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 art…

- Lisa Yuskavage

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

- Lisa Yuskavage

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…

- Lisa Yuskavage

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 pai…

- Lisa Yuskavage

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 j…

- Lisa Yuskavage

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 pe…

- Lisa Yuskavage

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 pointin…

- Lisa Yuskavage

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 surfin…

- Lisa Yuskavage

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

- Lisa Yuskavage