Noma Bar quotes

“When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.”
-- Noma Bar

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“My favorite works are the ones where I get to expose what is really behind the "brands."”
-- Noma Bar

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“As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.”
-- Noma Bar

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“There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.”
-- Noma Bar

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“Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.”
-- Noma Bar

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“Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.”
-- Noma Bar

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“Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.”
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“I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.”
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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.”

“My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.”

“I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.”

“I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.”

“Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.”

“Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.88, Random House

“I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.”

Source : "The Motion/Captured Interview: Jennifer Garner on-set for ‘The Invention Of Lying’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 27, 2009.