Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No c…

- Amy Sillman

At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on …

- Amy Sillman

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

- Amy Sillman

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

- Amy Sillman

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upsi…

- Amy Sillman

In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have t…

- Amy Sillman

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

- Amy Sillman

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. B…

- Amy Sillman

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

- Amy Sillman