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It's courageous, setting your art against the outside, to compete with the real. This is space of painting's "pure idiocy." Its hard headed survival. Or the PR more descriptively, "On the
whole, [painting] is fully unbothered by its detractors and lumbers on, buttressed
by history and money. Like Don Draper telling some irate underling that’s
trying to shame him, “I don’t think about you at all.”" Painting is "this invincible thing that is constantly at war with itself is
exhilarating." A stupid animal surviving in spite of itself, protected by some aura, which we all love to argue endlessly what. Art, as our collective cloud based MMORPG. As long as there's players, the game continues.