Nathan Sawaya Quotes

#1. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

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#2. Don't worry. It'll work out somehow."
" ... Whenever you say that, I get scared things'll actually happen that way."
"Oh? Why would you get scared ?

Keiichi Sigsawa

#3. I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

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#4. One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.

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#5. I love London and British women.

Matthew Morrison

#6. I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.

Khil Raj Regmi

#7. Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

David Alpay

#8. Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.

Anne Cox Chambers

#9. If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

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#10. Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

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#11. The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.

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#12. I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

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#13. Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

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#14. Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

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#15. I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

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#16. I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

Henry Rollins

#17. I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

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#18. When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

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#19. I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

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#20. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.

Yasser Seirawan

#21. I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

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#22. The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

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#23. I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

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#24. So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

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#25. I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.

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#26. In fact, he'd never held anyone who felt as if she'd been created with him in mind. Not until Gwen.

Kat Latham

#27. 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

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#28. I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

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#29. I am an artist who works with Lego.

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#30. Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

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#31. There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

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#32. I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.

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