“Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.” Quote by Cynthia Daignault
“Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.” EnoughAmericaFictionPossibilityPaintingArtwork Author:Cynthia Daignault
“One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.” FirstsWantedLife IsRealizingMemoriesFinishedDrawingCodeContemplatingCrackedBest Memories Author:Jim Woodring
“Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.” EndsRealityHappensVisionStreetsSurprisePainfulExpectedIntenseDullConsensusInexplicableDead Ends Author:Jim Woodring
“I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.” KnowsArtWantedSchoolArtistHigh SchoolGallery Author:Francesca DiMattio
“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.” KnowsRealitySpacePaintingElementsPatternsDissolving Author:Francesca DiMattio
“I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.” WayFindingsMeetingsFamiliarFeminine Author:Francesca DiMattio
“Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.” FeelsMomentsAbleSpacePaintingTechniqueCollapseSculpture Author:Francesca DiMattio
“When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsDifferentDoneWholeFeelingsFightingMaterialsWheelsVagueClaySeductiveTherapeuticCeramics Author:Francesca DiMattio
“It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.” LittlesFireBuildingBrokenRoughNo Money Author:Francesca DiMattio
“I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.” ThinkingImportantRememberComplexity Author:Francesca DiMattio