Neil Farber Quotes

Canada, Artist
1975

Neil Farber is a Canadian contemporary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. His work has been exhibited internationally including in London, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf and New York City. He is known in particular his ink and watercolor drawings. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Winnipeg and was a member, along with Marcel Dzama and others of The Royal Art Lodge. His work is also in the Museum of Modern Art and others. Farber was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our with Michael Dumontier style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

Neil Farber
- Style
- Image
- Taboos
I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

Neil Farber
- Think
- Teach
- Locally

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

Neil Farber
- Art
- Painting
- Drawing
I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

Neil Farber
- Ideas
- Paintings
- Drawings
I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.

Neil Farber
I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

Neil Farber
- Computer
- Written
- Album
I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

Neil Farber
- Music
- Lyrics
- Artwork
Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.

Neil Farber