Quotes from Marilyn Minter

Planned Parenthood is being mentioned by the Republican Party more than ISIS. I think Trump is insane. I don't think you could have a normal conversation or even convince him. I think the ego is just about Trump. It's not about the issues at all.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.

If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

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.

The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.

I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.

In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.

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.

Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.

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 am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.

I really believe that women run the art world.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.