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1.
Good advice in chronological order.
1 / “Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can,
without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to
it, more its neighbour, than in the unreal half-artistic professions,
which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and
attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does
and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and
wants to be called) literature. I am glad, in a word, that you have
overcome the danger of landing in one of those professions, and
are solitary and courageous, somewhere in a rugged reality. May
the coming year support and strengthen you in that.”
Rainier Maria Rilke:
Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Ten, Paris, The day after Christmas,
1908 (Paragraph 5)
2 / “Do not love art with your feelings.”
G.I. Gurdjieff:
Aphorism #10 Inscribed in the Study House at the Prieuré
3 / “There are many elements involved in a work of art.
The most important are the most obvious.”
Sol Lewitt:
Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sentence #30
4 / “If things don’t get broken down, there’s no chance
to build them back up minus the fatal mistakes.”
Michael Baers:
from an e-mail responding to Mia Helmer’s repeated requests to
remember this assignment
2.
Flygt!
Hvis der er nogen dumme, der er efter dig, så løb din vej.
3.
Dear Mia,
When you graduate from the art academy this summer, you will
have to define yourself as a professional artist. My advice to you
is, that you will have to keep on working with and develop your art
project through production. But this will never be enough. You will
also have to seek out opportunities, be an active agent so to say,
not only in relation to your own work of art, but also in relation to the
art scene as such. Do something. Meet people. And don’t be shy.
My best wishes for your future as an artist.
4.
Vær som du er og ikke som alle andre er.
5.
En salme, der ofte bliver brugt til begravelser, har en meget smuk
sætning, ’kæmp for alt hvad du har kært’. Den blev sunget til farmors
begravelse. Jeg fik gode tanker og tænkte, Mia værn om alt,
hvad du har kært. Kærligheden, barndommen, ungdommen og
fremtiden. Værn om begejstringen, det kreative, dine drømme, de
kære der er omkring dig og alt hvad du i livet møder.