Laurie Simmons Quotes

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.