Patricia Piccinini Quotes

• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

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  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.

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  Practice, People, Body

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

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  Artist, People, World

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

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  Ideas, People, Able

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

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  Art, Use, World

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Technology

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

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  Emotion, Thoughts And Emotions, Mediums

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

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  Ideas, Want, Firsts

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• I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

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  Reality, Everyday, World

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

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  Technology, Practice, Mythology

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• As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

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  Differences, Our World, Doubt

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• En el estudio utilizamos una gama bastante amplia de materiales para las esculturas: silicona, fibra de vidrio, pelo humano y animal, plástico ABS, acrílico dental, escayolas tradicionales y de alta tecnología, acero inoxidable, pintura para automóviles, madera contrachapada, metal Britannia, objetos encontrados y animales de taxidermia.

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  Animal, Hair, Found Objects

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

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  Play, Ideas, Drawing

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

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  Way, Messages, Humour

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

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  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do with global warming, and this is why they were making work about these issues'.

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  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?

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  Zoos, Real, Animal

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.

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  Cute, People, Scare

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

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  Meaningful, Interesting, Everyday

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• I would say my work is anti-ironic.

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  Irónico

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

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  Struggle, Joy, Life Struggle

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

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  Drawing, Different, Sculpture

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

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  People, Irony, Sometimes

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• Materials are very important to me, and always have been.

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  Important, Materials, Has Beens

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

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  Photography, Thinking, Practice

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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