Quotes by Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons

…Let’s get to the image as quickly as possible, let’s get to the message even faster, and let’s find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

Faster

Messages

Scales

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Really Great

Terrible

Terrific

Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It’s hard not to get blue, and I think the kids were very aware of those periods. So if there’s anything they’ve picked up, it’s a kind of resiliency. That seems like a pretty good legacy.

Kids

Legacy

Thinking

I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they’re so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

Dark

Men

Scary

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, “Did you really intend for these things to be so dumb? You just put it there and took a picture of it.” He wouldn’t let it go. So that’s what made me think about the dumbness aspect more.

Artist

Dumb

Thinking

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

Artist

Cameras

Turns

I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said and done, at this age, I feel the most like I felt when I was 11. And all those talents I had when I was 11 and 12 – I’m letting them sort of happen again. I can’t speak for men, but for women – we go back to a kind of pre-adolescent state when we were superfree and supercool.

Age

Artist

Men

I feel like I’ve finally got to this place that I really want to be. The place where, in my fantasy, the characters just get up and walk around – this interstitial place between humans and dolls. But I also feel like, where am I supposed to go from here? Because this feels like the place I’ve always wanted to be, for my whole life of shooting.

Character

Fantasy

Whole Life

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality – I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment… I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.

Kids

Mean

Thinking

I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, “Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause.” This was way before I was even thinking about it, but I thought, “Hmm, that might be something to look forward to. A sense of well-being!”

Calm

Remember

Thinking

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Quotes by Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons

…Let’s get to the image as quickly as possible, let’s get to the message even faster, and let’s find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It’s hard not to get blue, and I think the kids were very aware of those periods. So if there’s anything they’ve picked up, it’s a kind of resiliency. That seems like a pretty good legacy.

I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they’re so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, “Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause.” This was way before I was even thinking about it, but I thought, “Hmm, that might be something to look forward to. A sense of well-being!”

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