Damian Loeb Quotes

"I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro." ~ Damian Loeb

 "We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers." ~ Damian Loeb

 "When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue." ~ Damian Loeb

 "We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting." ~ Damian Loeb

 "Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort." ~ Damian Loeb

 "There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand." ~ Damian Loeb

 "Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I've got to understand this one. The only skill I was given is this painting." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled." ~ Damian Loeb

 "I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it." ~ Damian Loeb

 "All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images." ~ Damian Loeb