Letters to a Young Artist: Thomas Nozkowski
In the summer of 2005, artonpaper magazine published a special issue titled “Letters to a Young Artist,” inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet.” It included a collection of twelve letters by established artists written in response to a letter from a fictional “young artist” – a recent art school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being an artist in New York City.
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Source: magazine.saatchionline.com
Someone, I think Philip Guston, said that, if you’re an artist, every artist you’ve ever admired follows you into the studio. One by one, they leave. Finally you leave, too, and the work gets done.
James Baldwin interview on July 15, 1961 in WFMT studio in Chicago, IL
from Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Fred Standley and Louis Pratt, pg. 21
