Ellen Gallagher Quotes

• This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Recovery, Building Up, Ideas

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• Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Artist, People, Joy

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• I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Believe, Cutting, Bird

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• The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Cutting, Layers, Matter

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• At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Art, Cities, House

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• The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Together, Woven, Fiction

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