Francesca DiMattio famous quotes

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Reality #Space #Elements

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.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Fighting #Thinking #People

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Way #Feminine #Familiar

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.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Art #School #Gallery

I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Thinking #Important #Remember

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.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Space #Technique #Sculpture

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.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Fire #Broken #Littles

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.