"If there's a chair in a painting, then I've designed a kind of chair that I see in my mind. We then have to find it, finish it, age it, distress it. You know what I have to do is reproduce the thing that was in my mind. It's a stage set basically, and everything is that way, everything is made."
This city, everyone in it... is their experiment. They mix and match our memories as they see fit, trying to divine what makes us unique. One day, a man might be an inspector. The next, someone entirely different.
"I don't think science, with all of its genius, will ever understand the nature of the human self because it's a sacred mystery. It will always be a sacred mystery. And that's why I paint portraits, I want to capture that."
"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
What can be loved in man is that he is a transition and a becoming.
I say to you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say to you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star.
Alas, the time of the most contemptible man is coming, the man who can no longer despise himself.
Behold, I show you the last man.
'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable like the flea; the last man lives longest.
'We have invented happiness,' say the last men, and they blink."
"There is always a very celebratory narrative of photography. Photography is evidence, is truth.. All this narrative is pure rhetoric. If we look at the process, is always been forced, provoked. The human being that provoked it has always an intention behind it. As any transformation, there's a lot of information lost in the process. This world that we created that we can understand the world by transforming it into images, is taking us into an hallucination".
"Human skin has 80% transparency. Solid materials can't get that light in. That's why silicone is a transparent material. We are putting some pigment in it and leaving 80% transparency to make it look more like skin."
"The sense of becoming one, becoming something else, something tuned with the environment. I thought that was a beautiful sensation. When you asked me: “Say something”. I blattered: “Unity”."
"My idea was to break free from that and give each new day a new name, give each day an icon. Make the first million. Make people aware of the uniquely unique properties of each day."
We are happy to present the Studio Interview with London based British artist David Begbie. In this interview, David talks about his art, his process, the philosophy and ideas behind his work that spans 4 decades.
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