Tomaselli Quotes

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

Fred Tomaselli

#2. He understood a great many things about his parents, and he knew that many times they didn't like his understandings and many other times refused to believe them.

Stephen King

#3. 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

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

Fred Tomaselli

#5. Time marks us while we are marking time.

Theodore Roethke

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

#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 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

#10. Jesus died so we could live, now our flesh must die so He can live through us.

Hope D. Blackwell

#11. 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

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

#15. Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

Greg Laurie

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

Fred Tomaselli

#17. Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.

Mo Brooks

#18. Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

Ross W. Greene

#19. Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Courtney Barnett