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Yet Socrates told us to beware the barrenness of a busy life. If we’re busy all the time, life lacks essential rhythm. We miss out on the contrasts between doing and not doing. This oscillation is natural and healthy.
“Conceptual artists believed it was the message that mattered, not the medium, as if thought could be immaterial.”
― Contemporary Painting
― Contemporary Painting
“You don’t need to look for anything. Believe me, your life — the one and only great adventure — is enough.” “What a cliché!” I replied.”
― Mac's Problem
― Mac's Problem
“People always say that about art, or any form of keeping time, of collecting. That they could do it—but of course they could do it, the thing is, whether they do or not.”
― Drifts
― Drifts
“over the imaginary solitude of others, what others do when they are alone, how they deal with the vastness and ephemerality of the day, which I think is for me increasingly the meaning of and crisis of art.”
― Drifts
― Drifts
“Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.”
― How to Be an Artist
― How to Be an Artist
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Dedicated to the reading and discovering of outstanding literature on contemporary art.
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