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I am an artist who works with Lego.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Lego
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I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Artist
Lawyer
Worst
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Life Work Important
Life Work Balance
Cent
Commission
Per
Split
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Caress
Lego
Oscar
Statue
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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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Art
Creating
Years
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Daunting
Dinosaur
Lego
Skeleton
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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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Art
People
Understanding
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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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Analysing
Bricks
Recreate
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Me People Ideas
Lego
So Many People
Submitted
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'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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Art History
Taken
Brick
Works
Exhibition
Lego
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Marble
Home Me Parents
Disappeared
Dug
Exhibit
Immediately
Lego
Statue
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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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Different
Exhibitions
Inspiration
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Bricks
Storage
Capital
Everyone Else
Expense
Lego
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Bricks
Pursue
Ended
Lego
Something Else
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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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Art
Home
Creating
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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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Art
Kids
Different
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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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Mean
Special
Years
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Childhood
Nostalgia
Seeing
Brings
Buy
Exhibition
Hear
Lego
Shop
Toy
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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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Relationship
Artist
Independent
Paint
Unique
Good Business May
Since
Aware
Customer
Maker
Lego
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Bricks
Creating
Heard
South Africa
Africa
Appeal
Creations
Immediately
Lego
Meeting
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Bros
Good And Evil
Sculpture
Theme
Warner Bros
Heroes
Campaign
Dc
Developed
Donated
Explore
Warner
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Academy Award
Award
Best Me Song
Version
Earlier
Nominee
Extra
Lego
Statue
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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.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Candy
Clay
Paint
Periods
Wire
Budding
Creative Outlet
Outlet
Sculpt
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My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Dollars
Figures
Gallery
Months
Process
Sells
Six
Brought
Days
Weeks
Deliver
Each
Each One
Project
Formed
Fully
Lego
Lucrative
Piece
Private
Sold
Specification
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Design
Aspect
Corners
Creating
Curves
Enjoy
Fun
Imagine
Nostalgic
Pieces
Art Me People
Angles
Blend
Forms
Close
Connect
Different Level
Lets
Medium
Sharp
Using
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LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.
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Age
Different
People
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Bricks
Confined
Inspire
Paint
Alter
Go Home
Lego
Provided
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’The Art of the Brick’ exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and complex concepts. Everyone can relate to the medium since it is a toy that many children have at home. But my goal with this exhibition when it first debuted in 2007 was to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before.
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Art
Home
Children
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When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.
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Home
Museums
People
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I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing people’s reaction to artwork created from something with which they are familiar. …My goal is to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before. I also appreciate the cleanliness of the LEGO® brick. The right angles. The distinct lines. But, from a distance, those right angles and distinct lines offer new perspectives, changing to curves.
Nathan Sawaya / Artist
Curves
Distance
Simple
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