Collages Quotes - Page 3

• I've always liked making things that don't deny the medium that they're made in. If it's collage, I'm happy for it to look like that. If it's a film made with computers, I don't mind that it looks like a film made with computers as long as it still has a feeling or a mood or an atmosphere that is relevant.

  Dave McKean

  Long, Feelings, Atmosphere

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

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• In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.

  Paula Rego

  Cutting, Firsts, Paper

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

  Damien Hirst

  Titles, Floating, Sculpture

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• From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Wall, Couple

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• On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Sound, Attention

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• Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Rachel True

  Editing, Able, Film

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• For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Book, Together

  "The joys of stationery" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

  Puff Daddy

  Birthday, Book, Cake

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• I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Song, Writing, Track

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• I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Animal, Ice

  Interview with Wendy Vardaman, poems.com. 2010.

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• I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Together, Juxtaposition, Strange

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  Killer Mike

  Talking, Different, Used

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• No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

  Rosanne Cash

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  Erro

  Venice, Directors, Exhibitions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Moving, Artist, Here I Am

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

  DJ Spooky

  Technique, Sound, Culture

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• I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Home, Simple

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• As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Letting Go, Opportunity, Thinking

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.

  Saya Woolfalk

  Real, Technology, People

  Source: badatsports.com

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• We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Couple, Years, Mtv

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.

  Kalup Linzy

  Moving, Video, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Looks, Patterns, Lists

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Untouchability, Hate Her

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

  John Guare

  Six Degrees Of Separation, Life Is, Brushes

  John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage

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• As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Son, People, Southern

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