"I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Giles Deacon

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #Cabaret Quotes

“He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.”
“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”
“It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.”
“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“To be too knowing is a downfall.”
“If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.”
“Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.”

Source : "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.
“We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.”

Source : R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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