Kesh Quotes

#1. The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

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#2. That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it playing and interacting with light, then it will always be different.

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#3. When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

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#4. Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists within my head. Then I can bring it to life.

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#5. I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

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#6. Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

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#7. We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.

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#8. Social media is the basis of my career. Since I was a kid I've always used the Internet as a space to express myself creatively.

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#9. It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

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#10. Whatever social network that comes along, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, whatever it is, I'll use it in a creative sense to push the vision and explore the possibilities of the relationship between humans and technology.

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#11. Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

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#12. My entire career comes from the power of social media and the way I've utilized those spaces and interacted with people across the world.

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#13. Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.

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#14. I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

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#15. I don't like things to be the same. I like things to evolve.

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#16. I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

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#17. I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

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#18. Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

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#19. I consider myself a digital artist, so what I'll do is create everything with technology.

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#20. I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

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#21. I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

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#22. I like to use things that didn't exist 50 years ago, or 20 years ago even.

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#23. If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

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