Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.
The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
No opposing quotes found.