“I didn’t think I could teach. So I thought I didn’t really want to be a teacher. I thought teaching was having a certain pedagogical intelligence which I didn’t thing I particularly possessed. It didn’t have any faith in myself for being able to teach. And also I though I wanted to live in the world. What I really liked about, say, the Beat poets as well as the New yorkSchool, two radically different sets of individuals, was that they lived in the world insofar as they went to a job every day. And I really like that. I wanted to just read what I wanted to read. I didn’t want it to fit into anything at that point. I wanted to wander off and read whatever I read, go whatever way I wanted to go. I guess in a way now I’ve done that enough so that I can teach different courses. ” — John Yau
Category: art stuff
Can We Speak?
“Should we here speak of character? One of the leading portrait painters of our own day once remarked to me that he never knew what people meant when they talked about the painter revealing the character of the sitter. he could not paint a character, he could only paint a face.” — Gombrich, 1972
Sally Mann
“And so it was with fire and ice, the studio woodstove too far away from the light to do him any good on a cold winter afternoon, that Larry and I began this work of exploring what it means to grow older, to let the sunshine fall voluptuously on a still-beautiful form, and to spend quiet afternoons together again. No phone, no kids, two fingers of bourbon, the smell of the ether, the two of us—still in love, still at work.”
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