Molly Crabapple Quotes

Under bare lightbulbs, artists painted phantasmagorias powerful enough to threaten armies.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

I travel so much that when I'm not traveling, I'm just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone.

Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons.

My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

We clung to each other, as bookish young people often do, while waiting out the years until our real lives could begin. At

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people.

I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.

To make someone love you, see them as the person they want to be.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.