Michelle Stuart Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Michelle Stuart
The cultures of the Americas were extremely complex and interesting, with their own languages and observatories to watch the stars. The more you know about them the more you realize how extremely impressive they were. Bloodthirsty, though, I think they were as well. — Michelle Stuart
I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object. — Michelle Stuart
In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows. — Michelle Stuart
There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive. — Michelle Stuart
Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians. — Michelle Stuart
I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York. — Michelle Stuart
Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art. — Michelle Stuart
One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my repertoire. — Michelle Stuart
I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work. — Michelle Stuart
In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in your imagination. You should use whatever you can and it's amazing how even if you change the medium, your work is still yours. — Michelle Stuart
I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry. — Michelle Stuart
I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times. — Michelle Stuart
Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly. — Michelle Stuart
I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands. — Michelle Stuart
I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school. — Michelle Stuart
I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos. — Michelle Stuart