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Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
Most humans, it seems, still put up fences around their acts and thoughts – even when these are piles of shit – for they have no other way of delimiting them. Contrast Paleolithic cave paintings, in which animals and magical markings are overlayed with no differentiation or sense of framing. But when some of us have worked in natural settings, say in a meadow, woods, or mountain range, our cultural training has been so deeply ingrained that we have simply carried a mental rectangle with us to drop around whatever we were doing. This made us feel at home. (Even aerial navigation is plotted geometrically, thus giving the air a "shape".)
The young artist ... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
