“I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.” Quote by Roxanne Lowit
“Jack Geisinger. He passed, but we were friends up until the end. We took a dress design and apparel class, and I realized that I didn't like it, mostly because I couldn't sew very well. I then change over to textile design, where I could draw and paint. It was perfect for me. I got to the height of my career as a textile designer. I was working with people like Donna Karan, Jean Muir, and Scott Barrie.” PeoplePerfectDesignPaintI RealizedDesigner Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I happen to like regionalism, whatever that means. I like the idea of art that somehow specifically reflects some aspect of a community or culture from which was created, the idea of uniform art sounds dreadfully boring and almost fascistic in its implication. So in that sense, I really celebrate the idea of a place that allows for a range of ideas and certainly L.A. does that.” MeanArtCultureCommunityBoringCelebrate Author:Michael C. McMillen
“After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.” PeopleParentMissionary Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad art out there and a lot of it is because art has found its way into the university, where it probably shouldn't be.” Art Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I was always fascinated with people and places and seeing things I didn't know about.” People Author:Roxanne Lowit
“Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked it, and asked me to take pictures for her paper while I was there, but told me I would first have to buy a real camera - 35-millimeter. I got a little book that taught me how to load film. I read it on the flight to Paris. Hours later, I found myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower with Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol. It's all been downhill since then.” BookRealFilmHoursSaintFlightWarholAnnieEiffel Tower Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two, hopefully, and there are a lot of people there that can do things well, but they might not be devoid of good ideas or maybe they're not especially interesting ideas, or maybe there's a good idea that a person is unable to execute in the manner that does justice to the idea.” PeopleThinkingArtistJusticeInterestingHopefullyGood ArtGood Artist Author:Michael C. McMillen
“When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I was like, That's all? I didn't know any better.” ItalianVogue Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.” ThinkingKindArtTogetherArtistIntellectualResponseIntuitionIntellectSensualGood ArtThesis Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I always had to fight. I still do, believe it or not. When I had to go backstage. Even in Paris, I remember Billie Blair - a great model at the time - had to sneak me in by telling people I was her hairdresser. But her hair was so short, practically shaved. I said, "Couldn't you say I was your makeup artist?"” PeopleBelieveRememberArtistFightingMakeupSneakHairdresser Author:Roxanne Lowit