-You turned 17 the year I was born so this is so close to dodgy that it might actually be dodgy.
the more of your ridiculous book I read and the more of your work I look at. The more I drink and the more I smoke and the more paint I loose to my carpet, the more I want you to suck my tits. They're quite nice.
See when I first saw your work my jaw dropped.. literally.. And then I hated you.
Everything about you made me so angry.
Then I read more and less and more and I looked at your work and I saw your talent.
You seem like the biggest cunt on earth...
But that works for you.
You're hot and I want to lick you.
Love and respect.----aussiefan
-This book isn’t for everyone. It has lots of offensive material, uses plenty of cuss words and can be down right immature. At the same time, it was easily the most interesting art book I have ever read. His stories about his extraordinary life are truly captivating. He is not necessarily a fellow that you want to befriend, but I truly and thoroughly enjoyed reading through all of his experiences told through short, hand-written blurbs, photographs and paintings.
Oh yeah, and his art is great too.
Come by and have a look.---lost marbles
-Sad stories, funny stories, stories of success, failure, adventures in train travel, money, cash, hoes... and art, amazing amazing amazing art. This book is a gloriously disturbing trip through the mind and work of a true artist.--- Eyes On Walls "Tom"
-DAVID CHOE offers a collection of his various arts, which range from graffiti-like embellishments to paintings, cartoons, and startling commentary blending social observation with profanity. Art libraries will easily consider this a key acquisition for any collection profiling modern arts: it displays a range of pieces and accompanying angst and observations by an artist who offers no platitudes or compromises for his subjects and approaches. A fine and involving piece, this will reach any modern arts collection. –midwest book review
-man, we all had friends like David Choe, kids who drew the best transformers, & who idolized Jim Lee; perverts who thought in ink, who were obsessed with drawing dicks & high-heeled, spread-eagled women cribbed from porno mags; alchemists of styles, comic strips, graf, porn, fashion; who often drew terrible things shot through with real beauty; who sometimes managed to turn shit into gold. --Jamil Thomas
-This splashy, classy book is a monograph written by David Choe, the name of the book being DAVID CHOE. It is an artwork in and of itself in that the artist wrote all the content, designed the layout of the book, edited the mixture and then added an Introduction that amounts to bits and pieces pasted from responses to his art from his blog - not a bad idea -, but 99% of these comments are extremely negative, suggesting that Choe is a fool, a racist, a plagiarist, and a artist with no talent! It is a very funny way to open a book that is like no other book you will encounter. This reader finds it fascinating, hilarious, thoughtful, daring, and in all a magnificent read and view that will find its way onto the lap repeatedly. What is certain, after reading and spending time with this book, saturated with color, pornography, and examples of everything he has done, is that he is a daring and wholly unique young talent. Some have suggested a comparison with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and there indeed are similarities in portions of Choe's work to justify that, but there are equal doses of Egon Schiele and the major graffiti artists of the day. What makes David Choe so fascinating is his spectrum of talent. He is not one easily labeled - except perhaps that he is a renegade shaking up a society he finds too complacent, too uninvolved. There are pages of watercolors from exhibitions in British galleries that are at once masterfully painted with minimal line and graphically sexual. But then there are pages of toys he has created, complex paintings, murals on the walls of rooms and of streets that can only be called dazzling. This is a book that will keep offering visual and visceral pleasures every time it is placed on the desk or the lap or against knees in the bed. If those who called Gauguin et al 'The Fauves' could compare David Choe's talent, that word would have to transfer to this artist. -'In a phrase, Choe is that artist that every University MFA wannabe wishes they could be: hard-working, bursting with creativity, successful, and even tormented. The downside to all this talent is that Choe is as extremely unlikeable as he is charming. He's the Peter Pan who failed to grow out of his pubescent tantrums, always flailing against authority. Clifford Hilo'. That about sums up the experience of getting to know the prolific art of this inordinately creative young artist. He will be noticed! --grady harp
