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I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.
David Salle
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David Salle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 28
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This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
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As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.
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If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.
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It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.
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I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.
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I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've never read Ways of Seeing all the way through. I'm sure I carried it around with me in art school.
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What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.
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The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like people, and it grows out like a nautilus shell.
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My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.
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To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.
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My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.
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I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
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Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painter is telling us something. Just, how do they - what's their syntax? What's their inflection?
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What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible it's not the end of the world.
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I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
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For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
David Salle
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of being in the world that painting brings to us, that painters bring to the task that we absorb and are able to be in dialogue with. That's something that's part of us.
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Spend a day talking only in rhyme.
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