"I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler."

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Source : "A Conversation with Artist Fred Tomaselli". Interview with Robert Ayers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2010.

Fred Tomaselli

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“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.”
“There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.”
“I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.”
“As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.”
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
“Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.”
“The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.”
“Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.”

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