Quotes by Dan Colen - Page 1

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
Dan Colen / Artist
Art
Art Class
Class
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
Dan Colen / Artist
Art
Lenses
Thinking
Lens
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Dan Colen / Artist
Low
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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Handle
Hard To Handle
Ideas
Materials
Trying
Equally
Images
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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Discovery
Bodies
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen / Artist
Craftsmen
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
Dan Colen / Artist
Joy
Sorrow
Celebrating
Double-Edged
Mechanisms
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At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen / Artist
Miracle
The End Of The Day
Vision
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen / Artist
Miracle
Vision
End Of The Day
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
Dan Colen / Artist
Disbelief
Magic
Always Know Something
Possess
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Dan Colen / Artist
Energy
Objects
Soul
Spirit
Actions
Touch
Instilling
Involves
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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
Dan Colen / Artist
Eye
Spiritual
Thinking
Energies
Powers
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
Dan Colen / Artist
Moss
Go For It
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
Dan Colen / Artist
Destroying
Shallow
Barrier
Complex
Ever-Changing
Low
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
Dan Colen / Artist
Abstract
Dip
Pictorial
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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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Brushes
Paint
Imagination Myself Me
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Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen / Artist
Believe
Hard Work
Self Confidence
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen / Artist
Function
Work Believe Your
Conceive
Work Hard
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
Dan Colen / Artist
Design
Crazy
Drama
Hostility
Lifestyle
People
Tension
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Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
Dan Colen / Artist
Fame
Successful
Want
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
Dan Colen / Artist
Accepted
Bourgeois
Fame
Grain
Paradox
Inside
Outside
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Dan Colen / Artist
Inevitable
Love Is
Scared
Love Love Is Energy
Love Love Is Always
Deserved
Finish
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