Nate Lowman Quotations

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.