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All Quotes by author - Marcel Dzama
" Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores. "
Bookstores
Day
Find
" Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone. "
Play
Guitar
Like
" Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings. "
Future
Saying
Small
" I don't go digital. I was never good with technology. I didn't have a cellphone until I moved to New York. My gallery was like, 'What? How are we supposed to contact you?' "
Digital
Technology
New York
" I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment. "
Character
Moment
Feel
" I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling. "
Drawing
Baby
Thought
" I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great. "
Love
Boston
Great
" I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to. "
Important
Show
Myself
" I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs. "
Music
Work
Know
" I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn't consider him an influence because I'd already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot. "
Style
Influence
Learning
" I try not to censor myself at all. "
Myself
Censor
Try
" I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed like an interesting idea, and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink, I started using other colors that would complement it, like grays from Higgins black writing ink and, more recently, Dr. P.H. Martin's olive green and vermilion. "
Colors
Beer
Writing
" I've always remembered 'Where the Wild Things Are' so clearly, which isn't the case with most other children's books. 'Wild Things' was a favorite from the start. "
Always
Children
Wild
" The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me. "
Human
Body
Changing
" When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted. "
My Own
Own
School
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