I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine …

- Laura Owens

For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured ou…

- Laura Owens

I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see tha…

- Laura Owens

In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wante…

- Laura Owens

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almos…

- Laura Owens

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

- Laura Owens

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for…

- Laura Owens

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

- Laura Owens

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibil…

- Laura Owens