If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're an indirect servant, or a servant with a choice, or maybe you could not even serve. It's the… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Did you find any artists complaining who don't already complain all day long about everything? No. But have you ever met a dealer who… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them,… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
