Damian Loeb Quotes

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

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.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

When I make a picture, I make love.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.