Nathan Sawaya Quotes

• Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, People, Understanding

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• I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Artist, Lawyer, Worst

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• When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.

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  Home, Museums, People

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing people’s reaction to artwork created from something with which they are familiar. …My goal is to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before. I also appreciate the cleanliness of the LEGO® brick. The right angles. The distinct lines. But, from a distance, those right angles and distinct lines offer new perspectives, changing to curves.

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  Distance, Simple, Curves

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• Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Different, Exhibitions

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

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  Art, Home, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.

  Nathan Sawaya

  People, Age, Different

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.

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  Art, Kids, Different

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

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  Art, Years, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• ’The Art of the Brick’ exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and complex concepts. Everyone can relate to the medium since it is a toy that many children have at home. But my goal with this exhibition when it first debuted in 2007 was to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Children, Home

  "The ‘Art of the Brick’ Is Coming to Boston". www.bostonmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.

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  Mean, Years, Special

  Source: londoncalling.com

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