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You can't create sublime art, Schmidt would say, eternal art, he'd add, if you believe there will be a tomorrow . . . One must paint, he said, believing the Antichrist is traipsing through the next village.
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"". . . though [he] claimed great art criticism & art theory involved the mind, always at the exclusion of the heart, [his] heart was deeply invested in art no matter what he said; each time [he] insisted that I leave the heart out of it I knew it was his overabundance of heart that frightened him, . . . that plagued his conscience, his flood of emotions that demanded he suppress and even renounce the heart . . ."" — Oct 15, 2026 10:00AM
"". . . though [he] claimed great art criticism & art theory involved the mind, always at the exclusion of the heart, [his] heart was deeply invested in art no matter what he said; each time [he] insisted that I leave the heart out of it I knew it was his overabundance of heart that frightened him, . . . that plagued his conscience, his flood of emotions that demanded he suppress and even renounce the heart . . ."" — Oct 15, 2026 10:00AM
You were a joy, he said. Please know that. Know that you were a joy. To us. Every minute, every season, you were a—you did a good job. A good job of being a pleasure to know.
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