Quotes by Lisa Yuskavage - Page 1

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Audience
Love You
Sometimes
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I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Fingers
Trying
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If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Artist
Luck
Unconscious
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You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Art
Important
Polite
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I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Art
Challenges
Thinking
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There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Action
Expression
Pieces
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I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Artist
Nice
Thinking
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A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Film
Hopeful
Moving
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You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Kind
Way
Work Out
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I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Art
Thinking
Way
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I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Feelings
People
Stories
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I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Aliens
Painting
Way
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I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
New York
Branches
Library
People
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I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Thinking
Views
Worst Enemy
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It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Artist
Block
Worry
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I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
New York
Book
Reading
Surfing
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I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.
Lisa Yuskavage / Visual Artist
Hands
Missing
Sight
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