A biography for Laurie Simmonshasn’t been written yet.
“My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'”
“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.”
“There's part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be - one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose - that's also front and center.”
“I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.”
“I can't even relate to the idea of raising a feminist.”
“I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.”
“I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.”
“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.”
“From the time I started taking photographs, I started working with plastics. I've always treated plastic like it was marble or gemstone or fine glass. I've always gotten the most out of it. I love it!”