She always had an eye for the bizarre, the grotesque, the incongruous. She wasn’t interested in sweetness and light. She liked headlines that revealed the folly of individuals. Stories that would enable her to basically say, “I told you so.”

[…] If you look at her art, she sees the bizarreness of life, the incongruity of life, and the unappealingness of human beings.

— Linda Mathews in John Maloof, Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier, 2013