Marcel Dzama Quotes

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.

We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects - it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact.

I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

I express myself through my art.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.