Damian Loeb

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. ”

Star 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. ”

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. ”

I had no interest in high school besides art. ”

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong. ”

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white. ”

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory. ”

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most. ”

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. ”

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well. ”