"Just don’t do things that depress you… Seriality depresses me. Performance depresses me. Lack of narrative depresses me. All those kinds of cool things bring me down. So that was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you’re doing…"
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John Currin
Interview Magazine
(thats just the most obvious and succinct quotation from this interview that made me laugh out loud several times.)