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19 quotes by Dan Colen

Daniel Colen (born 1979, New Jersey) is an artist based in New York. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera, graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint, and installations.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's... →

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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy... →

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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform... →

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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always... →

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