Quotes by Ellen Gallagher

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

— Ellen Gallagher

Wisdom

I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

— Ellen Gallagher

Wisdom

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

— Ellen Gallagher

Success

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

— Ellen Gallagher

Success

Regardless of your support, you need to make work.

— Ellen Gallagher

Success

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

— Ellen Gallagher

Success