Collages Quotes - Page 2

• Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Forget Everything, Borders

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Aug 18, 2011

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• Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Different, Television

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

  Christian Marclay

  Today, Way, Chance

  "The Hours". Interview with Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

  Spalding Gray

  Memories, Cutting, Artist

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• I'm being given a little bit of credit now as being a viable collage artist, which some people think is ridiculous. Like this guy who said, "Wait a minute: You had an art show where you just cut out pictures and then glued them back together?" And I said, "Yeah, that's pretty much what it is." There's more to it than that. It's about having the eye for detail, moving things from one environment and reassembling them into new environments....Everyone can do it, but not everyone can do it well.

  Robert Pollard

  Art, Moving, Eye

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• While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Distance, Gun

  "The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists". Book by Cosana Maria Eram, p. 20, 2010.

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• Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

  Beck

  Media, Games, Ideas

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Fun, Memories, Law

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Photography, Creativity, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Drawing, Paper, Dots

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

  Kevin Durant

  Tattoo, Growing Up, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Cutting, Artist

  William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin (1982). “Re/search #4/5: A Special Book Issue”

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• I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

  David Shields

  Allies, Narrative, Honest

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.115, Vintage

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• One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Wall, Cutting

  Interview with Ben Glicksman, www.si.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Personalized

  "How Candice Swanepoel is Spending Valentine's Day". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

  Amy Sedaris

  Self Esteem, People, Wish

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• I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Two, Long

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.

  Dave McKean

  Character, Space, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Tired, Oil, Design

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• Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Goal, Movement, Rapids

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• My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

  Michael Giacchino

  Growing Up, Crazy, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Color, Drawing, Done

  "An Abstract Master Puts on a Plant Show" by Kimberly Chou, The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2012.

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Museums, Illustration

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• I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. Im always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  School, Magazines, Lists

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