What It Is Not
What it is not is also important for the artist. "Unless your soul produces Picasso's Guernica it is best not to mention your soul." Nor for that matter, any superficial subjective statements such as intuition, drawing since you were three, "My work is about the macro and micro" or "My work is about the organic and synthetic." Nor should the language frustrate the reader.
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