Top 29 Lisa Yuskavage Quotes

#1. You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#2. apartment building. "Yeah, it's

Sierra Riley

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#3. 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

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#4. Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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#5. 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

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#6. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn't grow on its own. It didn't blossom without food to feed it. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness.

Mariana Zapata

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#7. But maybe love doesn't have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.

Jane Green

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#8. 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

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#9. 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

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#10. I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

Cristina Saralegui

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#11. Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Steve Crocker

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#12. 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

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#13. I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

Alastair Campbell

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#14. 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

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#15. I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#16. 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

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#17. There is a lot of time between now and the fall term. There is a lot of time between now and the day after tomorrow if you want to put it that way ...

Ernest Hemingway,

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#18. 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

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#19. Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

Ava Gardner

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#20. 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

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#21. 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

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#22. Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

Chris Gethard

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#23. There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#24. Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#25. 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.

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#26. I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#27. Take full control by creating a life of true bliss through utilising the Power of The Heart.

Steven Redhead

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#28. If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#29. What's life without a few dragons? - Ron Weasley

J.K. Rowling

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