Nicolas Provost Quotes
My work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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For art to be art it has to cure.
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[In art], less is more.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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As a kid, I imagined being an artist.
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My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
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You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.
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My work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
