2009 Poor Farm Press
Routine Extremism Ad Reinhardt
One paints when there is nothing else to do. After everything else is done, has been "taken care of," one can take up the brush
After all the human, social needs, pressures have been accounted for, only then can be free to work
There is nothing worse than a fine artist who has something to do, a "job" or "Commission," thinks he has a "job" to do. Sculpture is always a "questionable " fine art, this is why
After the mail has been read and answered, bills paid, the place, studio cleaned and swept, children packed off to school or camp, wives released for shopping, after one has eaten, gone to the john, has taken the morning, noon, or afternoon nap, free from anxiety, all pains, pleasures, all distractions, obstacles, hindrances
Expressionism and surrealism is always fake, art as something else is always fake
Pension, income, when finally one has absolutely no reason not to work, it is exact
ideal time to begin.
finished
One lives after one is through painting what one is painting
After one
One lives after there is no more painting to be done
one has painted out
after the paintings have been
painted out