The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's … - Amy Sillman

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Amy Sillman

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

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That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

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All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

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It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

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You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

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Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress. " It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

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