Fred Tomaselli Quotes

#1. There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

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#2. I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

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#3. I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

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#4. I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

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#5. A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

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#6. I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

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#7. The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

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#8. I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

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#9. I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

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#10. I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

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#11. Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

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#12. I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

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