“I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am ...” — Lauren Gibbs Quote

“I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.”

“When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.”

“If I look in the mirror, my body is absolutely perfect. I think not enough women feel that way.”

“It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”

“I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'”

“This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.”