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You take photos. Drawings you make. Cameras steal life force. Paintings, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, give you more.

— Molly Crabapple Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

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I feel like political engagement is something that people, if they’re so inclined, all people should do...It’s not something that’s just for special, branded activists. It’s in part being a citizen.

interview with The Forward (2016)

Look at this vast, beautiful, crazy, fucked-up, gorgeous, horrifying world. How could you not be inspired by it?

interview with The Forward (2016)

Drawing is disruptive. You're producing when you're expected to consume.

Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

Women are looked at. But as an artist, I had permission to look back. Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare.

Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)

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