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Marie
Irmgard
1. I find Elvis more credible than the Beatles (their music is okay but they have that suspicious Tony Blair look)
2. I think it is a cliché to view artist such as Jackson Pollock as clichés
3. I find Picasso overrated
4. I went to a radical communist school and I am forever vaccinated and warning against ideologies
5. Thank you Sofi Oksanen for saying what I couldn’t
6. I do not see my paintings or drawings as differing in style but I understand if you do
7. I rank Jesus higher than Freud
8. I live half of my life in passive astonishment
9. I live a quarter of my life in frantic indifference
10. I live a quarter of my life in silent rage
11. I believe a painting can change the world
12. I don’t think Denmark is a very healthy place to be
13. I sometimes consider to make myself a tinfoil hat
14. I don’t believe everything can be conceptualized or contextualized
15. My aim is to be a good painter
16. I am serious about my paintings
17. Irony is good in humor sometimes, mostly it is not good in art
18. I believe that the carnival is over
19. I value binary structures to a certain extent
20. I don’t really understand Duchamp but I like his work
21. I prefer a visible boss to hegemony any day
22. I believe that images are worth repeating
23. I left university and applied for Fine Arts Academy because of the novel “Beloved”
24. I feel closer to Giotto than I do to any of my fellow artists
25. I don’t think a painting is justified by referring to another painting
26. America terrifies me but I miss it every day
27. Above all I love New Mexico
28. I loved Seinfeld but thought Kramer was superfluous
29. I have spend more joyful moments in the company of Niles Crane than with any other person
30. I believe Nike’s slogan to be today’s most relevant philosophy
31. I believe Marx rotates (wherever he is) in horror and disbelief
32. I think it is a shame Esperanto didn’t catch on
33. I miss cassette tapes
34. I haven’t eaten meat in 18 yrs but I refuse to call myself a vegetarian because I find vegetarians holier-than-thou-annoying
35. Sometimes the emperor has nothing on but I prefer to pay attention to what he wears when he does
36. I once sort of liked a famous conceptual artist but it ended when he claimed he could reproduce any Rothko painting
37. I miss the desert
38. I don’t think Rafael was any good
39. I think Fra Angelico was all good
40. I have often wished I was a boy
41. I hear the phrase “one must be stupid to paint” roughly about 14 times a year
42. Almost daily people tell me that “I shouldn’t worry so much”
43. Almost daily I think that people ought to worry more
44. I often wonder what happened to all the beautiful people?
Movie stars today are not beautiful, there is no Audrey Hepburn, there is no Paul Newman
45. I agree with both Peter Weibel and Clement Greenberg
46. I have a mirror in each room which makes me very uncomfortable and self-conscious
but Karen Blixen recommends it as a way to stay present
47. My best friend in college always proclaimed “Doubt is God, God is Doubt”
and that stayed with me way too long and I have recently decided that it’s time to finally let it go
48. I wish I was more like Jim Morrison and sometimes I am
49. I sometimes think about Lenny Bruce
50. I think about Huckleberry Finn almost daily
51. I believe that A Chacun son Paradis
52. I am convinced that in 300 years John Lennon will be remembered as the guy who was married to Yoko Ono
53. I am convinced that in 50 years Johnny Deep will be remembered as the guy who was married to Vanessa Paradis
54. I (too) often say to myself: “oh Toto we’re a long way from Kansas”
55. I think analysis can be paralysis and often is
56. J’veux pas finir comme Kurt Cobain
57. I know that “for the few” and “for the elite” are very different concepts
58. I believe that there is a pot of gold in the end of the rainbow
59. I tend to trust women who wear cowboy boots
60. I am not afraid of the dark
61. I am afraid of people in pastels
62. Johnny Cash was mine exactly two decades before he was yours
63. I still have Kris Kristofferson to myself but it is not quite the same
64. I wish someone would just fix things but I always roll up my sleeves
65. I believe painting is an idiotic discipline
66. I believe painting is the most important discipline