“Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.” TryingDifferentHellPaintingPaint Author:Damian Loeb
“Star Wars came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce. Eventually, you give up and try to recreate that feeling yourself.” GivingTryingDifferentWarFeelingsEasyGiving UpSeven Author:Damian Loeb
“I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. I don't want to go blind doing what a printer can do.” TryingGoalNicePaintingBlindPhotographReally NicePrinter Author: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.” ThinkingTryingTraditionHopefully Author: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.” TryingTodayPaintUnbelievable Author: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.” PeopleWritingTryingArtAbilityShareImpress Author:Damian Loeb