minus space - dumbo

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​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

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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

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Expressionism and surrealism is always fake, art​ as something else is always fake​

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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

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One lives after there is no more painting to be done​

                               one has painted out​

                               after the paintings have been​

                               painted out​

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david sedaris - powerhouse arena

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Reading of ​Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls  ​2013

"What's the last thing that you want to hear while blowing Willie Nelson?​

'I'm not really Willie Nelson'"​