Nate Lowman

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.

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

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

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.

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.

I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.