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Damian Loeb (born 1970) is an American artist.

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I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

Compelled, Feel Better, Painted, Talk, Understanding, Wife

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

Cell, Cell Phone, Clue, People, Pockets

Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can say the wrong thing. A million things, so it's so uncomfortable. So when you suddenly become aware of it because they don't call you or something for half an hour or whatever, you lose it.

Call, Half, Hours, People, Taken, Thing

Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my computer. I have a few close friends and people that are constants. Whether I like their opinion or not, I've been hearing it for a long time and I can use it as this constant. I mentally pay attention to how long they look at every image, which ones they pause on and what parts of it they look at.

Attention, Long, Pay, People, Watch

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

Ability, Art, Clue, Fit, Way

Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.

Collages, Different, Painting, Single, Trying

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Art, Cinematographers, Conform, Conventional, Directors, Discard

Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Photorealism was and should've been a very short element. But the thing is, photography is so satisfying. Certainly when it's well done.

Done, Everyone, Fantastic, Like, Photography

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

Love, Macro, Micro, Seeing, Things, Work

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

Black And White, Color, People, Read, White

I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

Moby, Same, Talk, Think, Thinking, Way

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

Ability, Lost, Opinion, Society, Unique

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

Artist, Job, Jobs, Lazy

Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you gaze on something and you appreciate it, you become a part of that circle. That seemed to me to be the only relevance I could understand. The space, the time and the vastness of it all was overwhelming. I needed to understand it or I just was lost.

Appreciate, Different, Father, Kids, Seemed, Understand

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.

Follow, Hopefully, Smartphones, Thinking, Tradition, Trying

It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

Life, Long, Practically, Suicidal, Thinking

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and easy. If it's cheap and easy, then upper classes aren't going to aspire to it. So, they have to find something more esoteric. I wanted the paintings to be realistic enough that you would have the ability to forget that I'm showing them to you.

Ability, Art, Beautiful, Became, Painting, Pedestrian

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.

Ability, Art, People, Share, Writing

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

Eye, Fool, Interested, Photorealism, Says

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

Artist, Comfort, Sometimes, Take, Things

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