Nate Lowman Quotes

• I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

  Nate Lowman

  Differences, Generosity, Selfishness

  "Studio Visit With Nate Lowman". Interview with Leo Fitzpatrick, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

  Nate Lowman

  Fighting, Miscommunication, Communicate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.

  Nate Lowman

  Years, Feelings, Way

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

  Nate Lowman

  Crazy, Fall, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  Nate Lowman

  Art, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

  Nate Lowman

  News, Use, Stealing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

  Nate Lowman

  Beautiful, Language, Express Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

  Nate Lowman

  Desire, Different, Artwork

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.

  Nate Lowman

  Selfish, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

  Nate Lowman

  Believe, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

  Nate Lowman

  Crazy, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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