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18 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“In my experience, artists are both more patient and more impatient than the nonartist in a museum setting.”
02 / belief
“I think things can have — things, meaning art objects, art things — can have short-term use.”
03 / evaluation
“I’m placing a bet and wager that if I put this thing next to that thing, magic’s going to happen, it’s going to catch fire, and I just know it. I just know it, but sometimes it doesn’t work, but at least I tried.”
04 / belief
“I think artists’ collections have more to do with wanting to be reminded about something, wanting to be nudged by something, wanting to have something as a touchstone.”
05 / belief
“Very much like the way I think about painting, the way I think about art in general, but The Sopranos show is someone who took the conventions of the day of gangsters, mafia, cops, and made out of it something which hadn’t existed, just psychological realism that had a texture, an almost granular texture of life as it’s lived so that people who have no .”
06 / belief
“There are so many self-delusions that are involved in being an artist, in the life of an artist, I think probably most of which are necessary, especially when you’re a young artist.”
07 / belief
“I don’t think it’s an accident. I think that many, many painters would like his work.”
08 / belief
“Anyway, crazy Preston Sturges plot. Now, Sturges is fabulous; he’s something I think about a lot.”
09 / belief
“I think one should make one’s own judgment, and it might differ greatly from accepted opinion.”
10 / evaluation
“Jasper is a really fascinating example, but I think quite rare in that early Jasper is very different from work of the ’70s, which is very different from the work of the ’80s, ’90s, et cetera.”
11 / evaluation
“I think I’ve said this other places: It is one of the things in life that you can get better at with the age, instead of worse, but you do reach a point where the physical body is a limitation, just how many hours a day you can work, how big you can work.”
12 / evaluation
“When we write about literature or sociology or something other than music, the medium with which we use to describe it is somehow aligned with the experience of it in the first place.”
13 / evaluation
“I think any good painting — really good painting — expresses something true about the time in which it was made and about the maker.”
14 / preference
“The crowd scenes, the image of the town. I love Sturges’s depiction of a town, the light of a town.”
15 / evaluation
“I don’t know, from the ’50s or the ’60s or ’70s — at a certain point, the experience of culture — whether it’s painting or something else — the nature of the experience shifted to something that had more in common with journalism than with what we might call “an aesthetic experience,” that works of art were thought to be about something.”
16 / prediction
“There might be people painting like Velásquez in the next decade. It’s unlikely because the truth of it is that there were very few people in 17th century that painted like Velásquez.”
17 / evaluation
“That’s not always a healthy situation to be in. It is a profession — and again, I’m not in it, so I’m talking about it, looking at it from the outside; I could be wrong — it’s not a profession that has encouraged or rewarded mavericks very much.”
18 / evaluation
“Part of what happened in art writing and part of what happened in the visual arts — in America anyway but also, I think, probably all over the West, and maybe even all over the world — is the expansion of the audience.”