Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
There, art was something that was just an accessory to a lifestyle. You painted or sculpted or made crappy installation pieces because it justified a wardrobe of washed-soft T-shirts and dirty jeans and a diet of ironic cheap American beers and ironic expensive hand-rolled American cigarettes. Here, however, you made art because it was the only thi
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traditional concepts of achievement. At a time when achieving material success (and even security) became increasingly difficult for a preponderance of Americans, and during a period when traditional moral values were in flux, the idea of life as a work of art, however vaguely defined, offered a sense of creative possibility. Simultaneously, the id
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First Word Art / Last Word Art
naimark.net“I hang pictures of my favorite artists in my studio. They’re like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I’m hunched over my desk. The great thing about dead or remote masters is that they can’t refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.”
— Austin Kleon
