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Living with art stops one wilting!
Letters from the late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig
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Mason Currey
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Van Gogh’s advice to a young artist
“In order to write a book, do a deed, paint a picture with some life in it, one has to be alive oneself.”
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Mason Currey
33
The mantra issue
Smooth as butter
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Mason Currey
45
The artist’s life is the hardest life of all?
“Everything up in the air and working hopeless"
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Mason Currey
64
The truest thing I’ve ever read about making art
From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling
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Mason Currey
76
Three tales of creative slowness
“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”
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Mason Currey
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“Think today, done tomorrow”
Martin Kippenberger’s extravagant life
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Mason Currey
17
Seven lessons in being an artist from Duncan Hannah
From the late painter’s irresistible journals of 1970s New York
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Mason Currey
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Wayne Thiebaud on finding “charm and freedom” in your work
The late American painter on a delicious artistic breakthrough
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Mason Currey
17
Lawrence Weiner’s “very primitive existence”
The late artist on his daily routine circa 2010
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Mason Currey
11
“If work comes easily, it is suspect”
On David Salle, Janet Malcolm, and feeling like you’re doing everything wrong
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Mason Currey
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Subtle inspiration: a grab bag
Kubrick’s willpower, Nicole Eisenman’s mantra, Baldessari’s “Johnisms,” and other nuggets from my move-scattered brain
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Mason Currey
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