Laurie Simmons Quotes

Laurie Simmons — American Artist born on October 03, 1949,

Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker currently working in New York and Northwestern Connecticut. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes... (wikipedia)

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'