Top 17 Quotes by Nate Lowman

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.