Michelle Stuart Quotes

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.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

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.

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

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.

Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.