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Nov 15, 2006 19:10

ee cummings::

Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.
Easy?
Of course-you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.
I never met him.
Who?
Everybody.
Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting?
I am.
Pardon me?
I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.
Not all painting.
No: housepainting is representational.
And what does a housepainter represent?
Ten dollars an hour.
In other words, you don’t want to be serious-
It takes two to be serious.

My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?- No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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