Quotes from Laurie Simmons

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

My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.

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

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.