Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.”

“I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.”

“I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.”

“If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.”

“At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.”

“I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.”

“I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.”

“I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.”

“I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.”

“Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.”