Latest Patricia Piccinini Quotes from Interviews

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• I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Photography, Thinking, Practice

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Father, Light, Skills

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?

  Patricia Piccinini

  Zoos, Real, Animal

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Ideas, People, Able

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.

  Patricia Piccinini

  World, Fantastic, Melbourne

• I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Ideas, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.patriciapiccinini.net

• I would say my work is anti-ironic.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Ironic

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Meaningful, Interesting, Everyday

• I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

  Patricia Piccinini

  People, Irony, Sometimes

• I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Common, Accessibility, Lowest

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Thinking, People, Serious

• If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Real, People, Joy

• I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Struggle, Joy, Life Struggle

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Way, Messages, Humour

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Cute, People, Scare

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Artist, People, World

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

• Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, Use, World

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm sure as more and more artists come to use these sorts of media, the expertise amongst conservators is going to keep pace with that.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Artist, Media, Talking

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Magazines, Tests, Drawers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• The studio keeps notes on the details of editions and production processes and the like.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Details, Notes, Process

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Track, Databases

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Thinking, Different, Next

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Photograph, Courses, Productions

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

• I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Drawing, Different, Sculpture

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.