At a certain moment, I realized that a person's life doesn't have to be too heavy, don't have to do too many things, and don't have to have a wife, children, house and car. Fortunately, I realized this very early, which enabled me to live a single life for a long time. In this way, my life will be much easier than ordinary people getting married and having children. Fundamentally speaking, this is the main principle of my life. So I feel very happy. I have never had any serious illness, depression, neurasthenia or pressure to do anything.
I'm embarrassed to use the word "create". The original meaning and social significance of this word are quite good, but fundamentally speaking, I don't believe in the creative function of an artist. He's like everyone else. His job is to do something, so businessmen also do something, do you understand? On the other hand, the word "art" makes me feel interesting. As far as I know, it comes from Sanskrit, which means "doing". Now everyone is doing something. Those who do things in canvases and photo frames are called artists. At first, they were called craftsmen. I prefer them. Whether in secular, military or artistic life, we are all craftsmen.
Painting is not a necessary way to express myself in my eyes. The big glass is transparent and saved me. When you draw a picture, even if it is abstract, you always need to fill it in.
The chess pieces themselves are not beautiful, but the form of playing chess is beautiful. In chess, some beautiful things belong to the moving category, but not to the visual category.
When you want to represent an airplane in flight, you can't draw it like a still life. The form of motion in time inevitably leads us to geometry and mathematics. This is the same as making a machine. ...
I always felt the need to escape from myself. ...
There is no reason to join a group. I won't rely on anyone but myself in the future.
I have always been troubled by a mentality. Don't use the same thing. One should pay attention to it, because besides himself, he will be controlled and occupied by the past. Even if he is unwilling subjectively, he will involuntarily show it in some details. Therefore, in order to achieve a complete and complete break, this is an endless battle.
The concept of "accident" hit me. This intention is mainly to make you forget your hand, because fundamentally, even your hand is an accident. Pure chance interests me because it is contrary to logical reality.
Drop a line one meter long on the horizontal plane from a height of one meter to form its own irregular shape, and repeat it three times. This idea makes me laugh. I always do things by myself because of the idea of "fun".
For me, "three" is an important number, but only in terms of numbers, not from any mysterious point of view. First, it is a whole; Second, it is a pair, a pair; Third, it is redundant. I have to do one thing three times to get what I want.
It is difficult to choose a thing, because after fifteen days you will start to like or hate it. Therefore, you must be indifferent when you approach it, as if there is no aesthetic feeling. The choice of ready-made products is often based on the visual difference, but also to avoid the good or bad taste.
What does fun mean to you? -habit. The repetition of what has been accepted. If you repeat something several times, it becomes interesting. Good and bad are the same thing and fun.
Does Arensberg's research have real scientific value? I don't think so. I think this is largely a person's trust in what he plays. Arensberg played with those words to get them to say what he wanted, just like everyone who did such a thing.
Simply reading French initials, even any language, will have some surprises. Reading letters is interesting.
Every forty or fifty years, a painting dies. Because its novelty has disappeared. Sculpture is dead, too. I think painting, like the person who painted it, will die in a few years, and then it will be called art history. How different a Monet painting is today and sixty or eighty years ago. Now all the colors are black, but it was very bright when it was first painted. Now it has entered history-it has been accepted in this way, so this will do. There's nothing it can do now anyway. People, spirit and painting are all like this.
Art history is to keep a certain era in an art gallery, but it doesn't mean that they must be the best things of that era. They may even be a mediocre performance of that era, because the good things have disappeared-the public does not want to preserve them. However, this has talked about philosophy. ...
I prefer breathing to work.
My art is a kind of life: every second and every breath is a work, a work without trace, without the help of vision or brain. This is a kind of continuous happiness.
In any genius's works, there are only four or five things that can be counted in a lifetime, and the rest are some fillers. Usually these four or five things are shocking as soon as they appear, whether it's "The Girl in avignon" or "The Big Bowl" ... I dream of rare things, the beauty that is regarded as transcendence.
Since then, you have never felt the desire to paint? No, because when I go to the museum, I don't feel dizzy, shocked or curious in front of any picture.
I respected this and finally fell in love with it.
This is based on the social significance of the word "woman", that is to say, I have been trying to avoid the relationship between wife, mother and children.
I don't think artists are the kind of social roles that must do something, and they seem to owe something to the public. I hate the idea.
The key to survival is mainly to see how much money you spend, not how much money you earn.
What do you believe? ) I don't believe anything! The word "faith" is a mistake, just like the word "judgment". They are all terrible concepts, but the world is built on them.
If you can find another expression, you will benefit from it.
Art is invented by people, and there is no art without people. All man-made things are worthless. Art has no biological source, it is just an interest.
Man needs art, through which he can renew himself.
Don't they also make idol masks or something? ) These idols are mainly for religion. The word "art" did not exist in primitive times. We created it for our own souls and special purposes, which is a bit like masturbation.
Do you believe in God? God is man's creation.
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Duchamp didn't talk nonsense. Even in a very simple conversation, he could make it very concise and human.
"I go to see Duchamp three or four times a year. I call this charging the battery, otherwise I will distrust myself and be ashamed of what I have done. "
"He is more like a father, the kind who can always be nourished and respected, rather than the kind who can gain your freedom through struggle."
1920, Dada hoped that Duchamp could send his works to Paris for exhibition. Duchamp jokingly replied, "Here's a ball." Everyone was blindsided, and then he had a brainwave and took this telegram to participate directly.
Surrealism, as a clear-cut movement, has not got rid of the inevitable outcome of all movements-from liberating people to binding people.
Cage asked: How did the Indian teacher explain music to her? She replied: She calmed her heart and reflected the sacred echo of the universe with an ethereal heart.
(Cage's 4'33') It happens that this concert hall is semi-open. During this time, there is a misty wind passing through the forest, and it will rain occasionally. Raindrops tinkled on the roof, the audience whispered and became impatient. All these sounds of nature make these 4 minutes and 33 seconds full of excitement. They are the life itself that Cage wants the audience to pay attention to and appreciate.
Zen is in life, not in artificial intellectual activities.
Donald judd, a rare artist: Western art pays attention to the layout and position management of works, which embodies people's own hierarchical thinking mode, because once arranged, there are priorities, and the practice of subordinating one form to another is the performance of hierarchical thinking.
Few arts reduce the modeling factor to only one unit, just to avoid the pollution of arrangement to people's hearts and things.
Judd: "Art is usually regarded as a clear and important existence. Actually, art is just a kind of existence. Everything is equal. They all just exist. "
His wisdom is innate. He never learns from others. He didn't take any books with him when he traveled except a toothbrush and some shirts.
He was born with a clever root, which saved him from reading.
"I don't want another life or reincarnation, how troublesome it is."
Chekhov: All dogs should bark. Let them bark according to the voice given by God.
Sun Hui: "The hoe is empty-handed, riding a buffalo on foot, people cross the bridge, and the bridge does not flow."
Wang Ruiyun: "I sincerely feel that in a life as calm as water, there are dangers, and often only one thought is enough to poison our short life." This is not to say that those bad ideas are going to kill and steal, but still some "good" ideas, such as the idea of being a writer ... what do you mean by people's hearts? How much dirt can it store for you? "
-Preface-
He showed his opposition to society very easily, even enthusiastically, and let us see the true quality of power: wordless, even unintentional.
He is like nobody's business, and keeps forging ahead in the tunnel dug by his own thoughts.
He remained calm throughout the interview.
Sacred people will not be harmed.
You can notice that he often uses "things" to describe his works and "doing" to express his creative behavior. Words like "game", "fun" or "I want to entertain myself" often appear.
All his life, he refused the activities of the opposite of trees.
"There is no solution here, because there is no problem."
To be an artist must be very wise, because he must be able to grasp many relationships that coexist at the same time. In fact, wisdom refers to the ability to grasp complex relationships.
"Artists should create quietly."
When Picasso was asked what art was, he immediately thought, "What is not art?"
There is a question that has always been called "aesthetic despair": if all colors are as pleasing to the eye as the human body, why did the artist choose this color and this body instead of something else? If he is not making a pure aesthetic choice, then he must be looking for another standard to establish its value judgment.