The conviction that painting is the right profession grows stronger and stronger in me. Writing is the only other thing I still feel attracted to. -Paul Klee
EW: DISCLOSURE/AFFECT
Donald Judd, “Warhol: You have to conclude that things that shit shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit. Or shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit or are shit that shit, etc., or are shit that craps, talk shit, and look like shit. Or are craps that shit, talk, crap, and look like shit are shit.”
(Pulled from https://hyperallergic.com/356878/the-artist-as-acerbic-critic-donald-judds-writings/ )
To write is to organize a relationship. –artist, Marcel Broodthaers
Words are events, they do things, change things.
They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.
They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
All these things are offshoots of words… Words are the most important part, and if they don’t mean a lot, I have a hard time with the rest of it.
— Laurie Anderson, 1983
I begin a painting with a series of mistakes…For me the medium of oil painting resists, more strongly than others, content cut off from external relations. It continually threatens, because of its motility and subtlety, to complicate a work beyond the simplicity inherent in a high order of abstraction. I attribute my increasing devotion to oil, lately as against the constructionalism of collage, to a greater involvement in the human world. A shift in one’s human situation entails a shift in one’s technique and subject-matter.
Robert Motherwell, 1947, statement
A painter who addresses the public not just in order to present his works, but to reveal some of his ideas on the art of painting, exposes himself to several dangers.
Henri Matisse,
Notes of a Painter (1908)
I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man, certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! Do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: that they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of; but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and (experience) has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.”
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Literary Works of Leoiardo da Vinci
JEAN PAUL RICHTER, 2nd Ed. P1i6
Why are you conducting this interview?
So that I can find out what is been declassified.
Why is that necessary?
It is a way to keep alert, a kind of sanitation.
Why are you conducting this interview?
So that I can protect myself.
From what?
From people’s imagination.
How can you protect yourself with words?
Words ward off oblivion.
Why are you conducting this interview?
It is a way of realizing guilt.
Why are you conducting this interview?
I want to crystalize the daily situation of talking to myself.
Lucas Samaras (AutoInterview 1971)
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard. — Hélène Cixous
Art is not about art. Art is about life…Art will continue, because…it is about the hurt of not being able to express yourself properly, to express your intimate relations, your unconscious, to trust the world enough to express yourself directly in it. It is about trying to be sane in this situation, of being tentatively and temporally sane by expressing yourself. All art comes from terrific failures and terrific needs that we have. It is about the difficulty of being a self because one is neglected. Art is a way of recognizing oneself…Without fear nothing in the world would ever be done. – Louise Bourgeios (p 167, 173…)
One of my favorite collectors collected white stones, each the size of a pebble and each representing a beautiful moment. These stones had a mysterious value to him and to no one else. Some people collect good luck charms like a penny on the street. Eery time they find one they get titallated.
Is the social worker collecting a collection of saved lives? What about the need to collect friends? What about diaries? My diaries are a form of collecting and they have no use to anybody but me.
The only saving grace of collecting is its transitional value…hopefully there is a transition from the world of the object to the world of ideas.
–Louise Bourgeios, Artforum, 1994, vol 32.
Theories and schools, like microbes and globules, devour each other and by their struggle to ensure the continuing of life. – Marcel Proust
“Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn’t, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.” — Kiki Smith
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200807/final-analysis-kiki-smith-creative-struggle
Joan Didion — “Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.”
Resistance must always be articulated from within discourse. – Judith Butler
To restore to the designer the experience of direct experience of a medium, is, I think, the task today. Here is, as I see it, a justification for crafts today. For it means taking, for instance, the working material into the hand, learning by working it of its obedience and its resistance, its potency and its weakness, its charm and dullness. The material itself is full of suggestions for its use if we approach it unaggressively, receptively. It is a source of unending stimulation and advises us in most unexpected manner. — Annie Albers, Design: Anonymous and Timeless. 1947
To be natural is such a very hard pose to keep up
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
I wonder if I make Judith Butler laugh or gnash her teeth.
Ha, note how I have encoded this wonder as a binary in which Butler might find herself troubled because she neither fully fits with fits of laughter or garish gnarling and gnashing of teeth in reaction to how I flippantly bastardize her important ideas.
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