Quotes by John Currin - Page 1

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.
John Currin / Painter
Men
Last Man Standing
Lasts
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Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.
John Currin / Painter
Corporations
Lawyer
Painting
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There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.
John Currin / Painter
People
Talking
Theory
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In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.
John Currin / Painter
Capitalist
Pay
People
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A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
John Currin / Painter
Artist
Mature
Starting
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Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.
John Currin / Painter
Culture
Needs
People
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There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
John Currin / Painter
Art
Misery
Saying Yes
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Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
John Currin / Painter
Clever
Style
Trying
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I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.
John Currin / Painter
Believe
Laughing
Thinking
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When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
John Currin / Painter
Art
Fun
School
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I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.
John Currin / Painter
Art
People
Portraits
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I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.
John Currin / Painter
Depressing
People
Thinking
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I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
John Currin / Painter
Art
School
Thinking
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A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.
John Currin / Painter
Kids
Quality
Games
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Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.
John Currin / Painter
Bring Me Down
Depressing
Want
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That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.
John Currin / Painter
Artist
Important
Thinking
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I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.
John Currin / Painter
Artist
Painting
Relief
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You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.
John Currin / Painter
Intelligent
Levels
Needs
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It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.
John Currin / Painter
Culture
People
Political
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I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.
John Currin / Painter
Artist
Excited
Ideas
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A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.
John Currin / Painter
Art
Girl
Stupid
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I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.
John Currin / Painter
Done
Ideas
Sex
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It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.
John Currin / Painter
Art
Rooms
School
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There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin / Painter
Fascination
Flow
Renaissance
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There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?
John Currin / Painter
Art
Believe
Numbers
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I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.
John Currin / Painter
Girl
Depressing
Real
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