Fred Tomaselli Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Fred Tomaselli:

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
~Fred Tomaselli


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#586e3698

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#1feeadfa

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#000cf34f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#775c169c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#3aa4cafb

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#81a95c1a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#5bee07d1

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!
~Fred Tomaselli


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#f7e35c9a

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.
~Fred Tomaselli


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#399aa7d7

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#f8a6b41d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#be5eca93

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fred-tomaselli-quotes/#234a2dbd

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