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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“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
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of love’s austere and lonely offices?”
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