Laura Owens Quotes

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.