Fred Tomaselli Professions : Artist Born : 1956 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Fred Tomaselli Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. Fred Tomaselli perception reality art A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious! Fred Tomaselli people thinking I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler. Fred Tomaselli stuff art school I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me. Fred Tomaselli get-to-know-me know-me smart Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. Fred Tomaselli form believe art 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 rock experience work culture I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else. Fred Tomaselli live good know way 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 try music world art 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 painting funny people world I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can. Fred Tomaselli best think irony embrace I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. Fred Tomaselli name understand i-can kind I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity. Fred Tomaselli try know generosity artist Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
