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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

on painting

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Paintings inevitably get good when you give up hope, then it's easy to take a risk because there’s nothing to lose. It's all about ruining shit and thus saving it from predictability
. - Nicole Eisenman, with Butt Johnson, for Rereveal.

Painting is a lot like fishing. Stick your brush in the water and wait. Hope for something big (or at least funny looking…) Read the paper. Eat a sandwich. Think about painting. Call Baselitz (no answer.) Read “Hunger”. Crossword puzzle. Whistle. Paint. Curse God. Go home. - Joe Bradley, for Peres Projects.

4 comments:

Mark Barry said...

Joe Bradley more so, for me. Especially the eating part.

Brandon said...

painting is excruciatingly slow.

M.A.H. said...

sounds about right.

Jeffrey said...

Neither one of these sound right to me.