Dan Colen

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

— Dan Colen

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can…

— Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using…

— Dan Colen

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

— Dan Colen

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

— Dan Colen

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want…

— Dan Colen

It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

— Dan Colen

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

— Dan Colen

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want…

— Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and…

— Dan Colen

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

— Dan Colen

For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without…

— Dan Colen

I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss.…

— Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's…

— Dan Colen

At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle…

— Dan Colen

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

— Dan Colen

I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

— Dan Colen

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle…

— Dan Colen

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

— Dan Colen

Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im…

— Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I…

— Dan Colen

It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm…

— Dan Colen