Seth Godin: belief

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…Who’s an example of a major visual artist whose work you just don’t get? I think that there is a bunch of art from the ’80s, where it was mostly assemblages of trash, and then we added to it video and noise. Often, when I’m at MoMA or someplace like that, you’ll walk into one of those side rooms where they’re playing something like that on repeat. It’s quite possible that if I spent a few hours sitting with it and looking at it and thinking about it, I could get what the artist was after. But there’s so much other stuff in the museum that might pay off that time better that I tend to move on. It’s not that I don’t like these people. I don’t even know their names. I’m just saying I don’t get it. How has immersing yourself in the visual arts improved the other things you do, other than the obvious, “Oh, I try to have my work look nice”?…

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