Dustin Yellin Quotes

Dustin Yellin — American Artist born on July 22, 1975,

Dustin Yellin is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his sculptural paintings that use multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery, to create a single intricate, three-dimensional collage. His work is notable both for its massive scale and its fantastic, dystopian themes. Yellin is the founder of Pioneer Works, a non-profit institute for art and innovation in Red Hook, Brooklyn... (wikipedia)

Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

Dustin Yellin Quotes

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