Dan Colen quotes

“I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.”
-- Dan Colen

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“A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.”
-- Dan Colen

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“Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.”
-- Dan Colen

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“For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.”
-- Dan Colen

Source : Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2010.

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“I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.”
-- Dan Colen

Source : "Dan Colen has good karma". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2012.

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“Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.”
-- Dan Colen

Source : "Dan Colen’s Intimate Evening of Performance at Smalls Jazz Club". Interview with Kalup Linzy, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2012.

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“At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.”
-- Dan Colen

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“Art class was my thing, but not any other class.”
-- Dan Colen

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“Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.”
-- Dan Colen

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“In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.”

“The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.”

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently”

Source : FaceBook post by Aaron Scheidies from Mar 27, 2014

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.