Fred Tomaselli Quotes

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

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• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

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• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

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• I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

  

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• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

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• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

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• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

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• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

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• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

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• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

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• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

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• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

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• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

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• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

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• Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

  

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• It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

  

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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
  • People
  • World
  • Small