Damian Loeb

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without…

— Damian Loeb

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to…

— Damian Loeb

It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I…

— Damian Loeb

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably…

— Damian Loeb

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the…

— Damian Loeb

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after…

— Damian Loeb

You just can't control your art in the future.

— Damian Loeb

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

— Damian Loeb

Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken…

— Damian Loeb

I had no interest in high school besides art.

— Damian Loeb

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think…

— Damian Loeb

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to…

— Damian Loeb

Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the…

— Damian Loeb

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we…

— Damian Loeb

I can't work without music.

— Damian Loeb

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

— Damian Loeb

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things…

— Damian Loeb

I take a lot of pictures.

— Damian Loeb

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out…

— Damian Loeb

Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I…

— Damian Loeb

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness,…

— Damian Loeb

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz.…

— Damian Loeb

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But…

— Damian Loeb