pamelalovenyc:

“At high school, I avoided everything that was commercial art.  I avoided having to make posters, and I avoided all of these – I just – I didn’t want to – I mean, I had no real thought about why, but it was just not interesting to me.  But I was always drawing at home, and making little clay stuff and little figures, little – anything that I could get my hands on.  And I did enjoy the clay.  I – and made a nice mess wherever I went.  And that was fine.”

-Lee Bontecou

from transcript of her “oral history” interview in the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution)