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.
Damian LoebI started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.
Damian LoebI 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.
Damian LoebStar 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.
Damian LoebThere's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.
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