20 Quotes by John Currin
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Instead of last man standing, it’ll be last man smiling.
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Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.
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There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
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Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
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There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It’s not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
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I find I can’t get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.
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A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
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Just don’t do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don’t want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can’t get into it.
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A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It’s gonna be like a kid playing a video game.
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