Marcel Dzama Quotes

#1. You make a choice to win and you win

Charlie Sheen

#2. Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.

Marcel Dzama

#3. Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.

Marcel Dzama

#4. P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

Marcel Dzama

#5. My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

Marcel Dzama

#6. I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

Marcel Dzama

#7. I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Marc Jacobs

#8. When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Marcel Dzama

#9. The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

Marcel Dzama

#10. I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

Marcel Dzama

#11. Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart.

Jim Butcher

#12. I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

Marcel Dzama

#13. I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

Marcel Dzama

#14. Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

Weike Wang

#15. I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

Marcel Dzama

#16. I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

Sebastian Faulks

#17. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

Michael Crichton

#18. I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

Marcel Dzama

#19. The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

Marcel Dzama

#20. Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

Alex Kapranos

#21. Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

Marcel Dzama

#24. I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

Marcel Dzama

#25. Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace.

Georgi Y. Johnson

#26. A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

Pittacus Lore

#27. The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#28. I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

Marcel Dzama

#29. I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'

Big L

#30. I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

Marcel Dzama

#31. In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

Elton Gallegly

#32. I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.

Marcel Dzama

#33. My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

Marcel Dzama