Fred Tomaselli Quotes

#1. 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.

Fred Tomaselli

#2. 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.

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

#4. It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Dan Quayle

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

#7. It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

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

Fred Tomaselli

#9. 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.

Richard Corliss

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

Fred Tomaselli

#11. The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

Charles Duhigg

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

#17. Search is an unsolved problem.

Marissa Mayer