Laura Owens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.
-- Laura Owens

#Ridiculous #Painting #Shame
I feel like thereâ€™s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, Iâ€™m completely in this world of possibility.
-- Laura Owens

#Art #Space #World
In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.
-- Laura Owens

#Art #Struggle #Moving
I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most textiles are created by women. Generally, most stuff that's not in the canon is created by women.
-- Laura Owens

#Thinking #Artist #Female
In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.
-- Laura Owens

#Inspiration #Thinking #Artist
Iâ€™m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the personâ€™s face from the hat and be like â€œDo you see that!â€ Itâ€™s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.
-- Laura Owens

#People #Shadow #World
For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.
-- Laura Owens

#Struggle #Ideas #Interesting
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.
-- Laura Owens

#Art #Book #Other Cultures
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.
-- Laura Owens

#School #Math #Artist
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.
-- Laura Owens

#Historical #Want #Mingling
Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.
-- Laura Owens

#Drawing #Inspire #Elements
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.
-- Laura Owens

#Artist #Self #Signatures
I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.
-- Laura Owens

#Art #Hero #Thinking
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.
-- Laura Owens

#Past #Thinking #People
There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.
-- Laura Owens

#Art #Believe #House

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