“I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I wa...” — Shea Hembrey Quote

“I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.”

“I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.”

“I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.”

“It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.”

“Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.”

“I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.”