Top 29 Nate Lowman Quotes
#1. I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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#2. I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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#3. I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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#4. I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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#5. When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
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#6. There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.
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#7. The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.
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#8. Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
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#9. Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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#10. I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
William Of Malmesbury
#11. Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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#12. To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.
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#13. I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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#14. Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
Raymond Bonner
#15. It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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#16. I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
Jane Fonda
#17. I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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#18. I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
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#19. There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense ... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold; in short, need.
Stendhal
#20. I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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#21. I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
Mitt Romney
#22. I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.
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#23. It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!
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#24. A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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#25. I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
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#26. I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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#27. A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.
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#28. The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.
James McAvoy
#29. People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.
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