Marilyn Minter Quotes
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I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.
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Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
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I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
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All my work is about how it feels to look.
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When I see an artist whose work I like at a party - I'm old now, so I can do this - I go right over and tell them how much I like their work. Instantly, I'm on their side. The act of saying it takes away the competition. The act of saying it makes me not hate them anymore, because they're good.
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I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
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My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
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I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.
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I really believe that women run the art world.
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I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
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Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.
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I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algorithm pure, so I only ever like pictures of art. It's a rabbit hole for me because I'm a total voyeur.
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I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.
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I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I had no money. It's where I got my birth control. During college, every one of us got support from them.
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Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
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Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.
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I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.
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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.
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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.
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I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to.
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I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
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I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!
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I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.
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My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on.