I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious! — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious! — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
