I’ve always remembered ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ so clearly, which isn’t the case with most other children’s books. ‘Wild Things’ was a favorite from the start. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it’s important to make art that they can connect to. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn’t consider him an influence because I’d already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed like an interesting idea, and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink, I started using other colors that would complement it, like grays from Higgins black writing ink and, more recently, Dr. P.H. Martin’s olive green and vermilion. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
I feel that, for each show I’ve been doing, there’s a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings. Marcel Dzama Read Quote
