Listening to Chuck Close on fora.tv.
At 17.30 he starts to talk about getting very good at being at art school and getting to be very good at ‘making stuff that looks like art’.
Someone once told me they had been trying to work up some paintings that would go down well in an ‘arty’ town, they’d recently visited, where lots of artists lived, and it seemed, sold lots of paintings.
I understand trying to work up pictures that sell but, personally, I’d rather be back in the call centre earning a wage, than produce pictures in the style of all the other artsists in a town where lots of artists sell lots of paintings in a certain style that sell well.
To me it would be the least dishonest compromise.
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