David Salle Quotes

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• Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
• Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.
• I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
• My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but…
• I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was…
• I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find…
• I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
• I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it -…
• As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That…
• My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.
• Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work,…
• Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of…
• It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the…
• This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

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