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Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
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When I first met Don Brown, in 1963, he remarked that he wanted to not express a work of art in order to reveal the inner workings of the art process. I think we cannot not do that anymore, nor should we.

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"The buns were slow today."

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"There is no sexuality in Raymond Carver's stories - or, I should say, his story."

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forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns

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jon abbey wrote:forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns
Does he speak about his own paintings?!

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Lao Tsu Ben wrote:
jon abbey wrote:forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns
Does he speak about his own paintings?!
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/118981

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"This is not a celebration" I'm thinking Morgan Freeman in Bonfire of the Vanities

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Personality is a flimsy thing on which to build an art. - John Cage

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jon abbey wrote:forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns
That was the one I used for the PT review of the Pisaro / Tsunoda, too.
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