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When i'm painting outdoors, i only have time to think about what i'm saying, not how i'm saying it.
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When I'm Painting Outdoors, I Only Have

Matt Smith
When i'm painting outdoors, i only have time to think about what i'm saying, not how i'm saying it.
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. but who cares about painting? what we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
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