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The truest thing I’ve ever read about making art

From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling

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Mason Currey
May 15, 2023
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Greetings! This is not going to be one of those newsletters where I grab your attention with the headline and then make you wait for the promised insight. Here it is: the truest thing I’ve ever read about making art—or writing, or making music, or pursuing any type of ambitious creative work—as emailed to me in 2017 by the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling:

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