Top 12 Quotes by Fred Tomaselli

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.