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dadushin:

Hard to get out of bed sometimes

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“No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.”

Andreas Feininger
Gorilla Rib Cage
1951
photography

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simonleclerc:

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“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that’s fine too. They don’t have to buy it to have it – they can just have it by knowing it.”

Lawrence Weiner
PUSH AS IF & LEFT AS IS
2012
language and the materials referred to.
Dimensions variable.

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donotdestroy:

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock

Number 19, 1948
1948
oil and enamel on paper mounted on canvas
30 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.
Price realised
USD 58,363,750

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donotdestroy:

“I have found that in accepting and immersing myself in subject matter I paint with more intensity and that the ‘hows’ of painting are more inevitably determined by the ‘whats’.” — David Park

David Park (1911-1960)
Two Heads
1959
oil on canvas
24 x 26 in.
Price realised
USD 1,022,500

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“I don’t make art to make money. I make money to make art.”

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