I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon … - David Salle

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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

David Salle

I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that.

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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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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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Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

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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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