I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.
All my work is about how it feels to look.
I take things that already exist and just push them.
I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.
I love the idea of making images of the parts of the body that we all have but that no one pays attention to, like the soft area underneath your nose.
I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
I like working with women who own their own power.
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.
I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.
Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.
I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
I really believe that women run the art world.
I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.
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.
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!
Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.
When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.
I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
