Fred Tomaselli quotes

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

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

Fred Tomaselli

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

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

Fred Tomaselli

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

Fred Tomaselli