"That’s why ultimately I’ll tell them. I’ll explain one painting. This is about blah-blah-blah-blah. But it’s misleading—because what does it accomplish? Now you have a nice story, but does that make the picture any more interesting? And on another deeper level… by the time the painting’s spent all that time ripening on the easel, all kinds of other stuff has come into it. The experience becomes richer and richer and richer, and how the hell can you explain that? If someone can just sense the richness—boy, that’s enough. That’s plenty."
Thomas Nozkowski
Bomb Magazine Issue 65 Fall 1998
http://www.bombsite.com/issues/65/articles/2171
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