Fred Tomaselli quotes

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
-- Fred Tomaselli

#Art #Reality #Perception

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
-- Fred Tomaselli

#Art #Believe #Form

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!
-- Fred Tomaselli

#Thinking #People

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

#Art #School #Stuff

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.
-- Fred Tomaselli

#Smart #Get To Know Me #Know Me

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.