Marilyn Minter

“I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.”

“People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.”

“We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.”

“Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.”

“Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.”

“If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.”

“I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.”