I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.
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
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
There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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 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…
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
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…
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. - Lisa Yuskavage
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
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 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…
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