So You Want to be an Artist?

bookforum.com : So You Want to be an Artist? By Sholem Krishtalka

"Socially, the art world functions like a Jane Austen novel: The main principle is a carefully constructed system of etiquette. Every precarious reputation, any morsel of clout, is built upon the mist of How One Seems."

A painting should

A painting should make you feel lost.
A painting should absorb your ideas and illusions about art.
A painting should have no convenience, explanation, legend or meaning.

A painting should touch nothingness as close as possible.
A painting should be as useless as possible.
A painting should be as perfect as silence.

— Ralph Lichtensteiger, Berlin, January 7, 2012

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