Wangechi Mutu

I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in real life. It's related to the way collage allows you to manipulate reality and the hierarchies that are inherent in our awful but amazing world.

Kenyan Artist

Spalding Gray

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

American Actor

James Rosenquist

Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

American Artist

Chris Smalling

I have a collage of pictures of my dad holding my brother and me. I look at that before every game just to remind me about having no fear or regrets and to go out and enjoy the moment, because I know how precious life is.

English Athlete

Kevin Durant

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

American Athlete

Michael Giacchino

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.

American Composer

Javed Jaffrey

Song, dance and cinema are so deeply within the Indian culture and with so many cultures incorporating their elements too, it has become a wonderful collage.

Indian Actor

Candice Swanepoel

The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

South African Model

Rachel True

I like to make collages - paper collages.

American Actress

Mohanlal

Collage is often used in creative contexts like school art projects or personal crafts.

Artistic Projects

Collage adds visual appeal by combining a variety of textures and colors.

Visual Interest

Can be used metaphorically to describe an assortment forming a unified whole.

Metaphorical Usage

Indicates a creative or eclectic combination of elements in various contexts.

Creative Mix

Suggests inclusion of diverse or unlikely elements coming together.

Diverse Elements

The word is usually used in informal discussions to describe a mix of items or ideas.

Informal Context

In fashion, 'collage' points to the innovative and artistic combination of fabrics.

Fashion Innovation

Look for how different materials contrast or complement each other in the garment.

Material Contrast

 It turns out that this is actually a complex problem that requires sophisticated coordination inside your brain. That's because to create these new, weird images, your brain takes familiar pieces and assembles them in new ways, like a collage made from fragments of photos. The brain has to juggle a sea of thousands of electrical signals

The science of...

 I like to hike and surf and do all that weird stuff, and I was making a collage for my ma. And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up, and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid, and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them,

A journey through the...

 Basquiat repurposed both present day experiences and art history into an inventive visual language. He worked as if inserting himself into the legacy of artists he borrowed from, producing collages that were just as much in conversation with art history as they were with each other.

The chaotic brilliance...

 they are unable to recognize most of the objects because the world to them is over-fragmented; it's made up of a collage, a patchwork, of regions of different colors and luminances. And that's what's indicated in the green outlines. When you ask them,

Pawan Sinha on how...

 through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, what this present moment smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

My stroke of insight PIPE...

 we don't know what's causing the problem but we have some suspects toxic contaminants or an infection possibly caused by pathogens like bacteria or viruses sections of the tar collage River looked peaceful and unspoiled

Blind-Croc Mystery PIPE...

 and the kicker is that the claws that he did for me I got an a-minus on the collage he did for himself he got a B+ yeah and we still laugh about it to this day well after graduation life continued on

How math saved my life PIPE...

 subjects that I'm interested in working in my larger pieces so then when I do get an idea for the larger artwork I'm already in motion and I just take that energy from the collage process right

She Explores the...

 the horses in the castle you find that onion collage they are very adapted to this region into this weather and to this type of life or the Guardian the horse is the most important collect my

The Last Cowboys of...

 respite from the drama you you come here you play ping pong and everything else doesn't matter for the collage that you're here I wouldn't know where I would go if I join the daytime I didn't