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Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: About Art Been Changed Mine Other Perception Realities Really Through Visiting

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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Art Believe Come Form Notion Senses Through You Your

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I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Any Any Other Way Anything Anything Else Artist Else Except Good Know Live Other Very Way

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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

Topics: American American Experience Asian Aspects Culture Experience Punk Punk Rock Really Rock Rooted Work

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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

Topics: Art Art World Contribution Conversations Idea Like Make Music Music World Spirit Try World

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I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Actually Get Know Me Pretty Smart You

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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

Topics: Amount Anything Around Because Bunch Control Did Discourse Funny Funny Way Guess Just Museum Painting People Really Small Thought Want Way Whole World

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I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Best Condition Embrace Irony Manage Think

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I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Classify Kind Name Sensibility Stuff Understand Until Victorian I Can

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I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

~Fred Tomaselli

Topics: Art Art School Auto Doing Including Mechanic School Stuff Through Using Various Way Worked

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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