Ed Askew Quotes

• What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Ideas, Style

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Two, Important

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Modernism, Painter

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

  Ed Askew

  Night, Want, Wake Up

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Office, News

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

  Ed Askew

  Building, Bigs, Walks

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

  Ed Askew

  Sleep, Night, People

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Teaching, Kids

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

  Ed Askew

  Believe, Issues, People

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

  Ed Askew

  New York, Fun, Goes On

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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