Bill Merrill on thu 10 sep 09
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist. Paul
Gauguin
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Success is what sells. Andy Warhol
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In most cases success equals prison...An artist should never be:
prisoner of himself, prisoner of a manner, prisoner of a reputation,
prisoner of success. Henri Matisse
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Living is more of a question of what one spends than what one makes.
Marcel Duchamp
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself
is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo
Picasso
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Lee Love on thu 10 sep 09
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Bill Merrill wrote:
> Success is dangerous. =3DA0One begins to copy oneself, and to copy onesel=
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> is more dangerous than to copy others. =3DA0It leads to sterility. =3DA0P=
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> Picasso
This is my favorite. We call "copying oneself "Style." Copying
oneself is the end of risk. The end of discovery.
--
Lee Love, Minneapolis
"The tea ceremony bowl is the ceramic equivalent of a sonnet: a
small-scale, seemingly constricted form that challenges the artist to
go beyond mere technical virtuosity and find an approach that both
satisfies and transcends the conventions." -- Rob Sliberman
full essay: http://togeika.multiply.com/journal/item/273/
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