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I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.
Josh Smith
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Josh Smith
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 5
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I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, What do you mean? It's a flower! But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?
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Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.
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I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
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I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?
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I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.
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It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.
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I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I mean, that's why I live in New York, and that's why I'm an artist who shows 10 times a year.
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It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.
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