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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-11-07

"That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it." -- Joni Mitchell (b. 1943-11-07)

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gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 06:38pm on 2013-11-07
There are an awful lot of painters who painted the same subject over and over again, enjoying it. Including Van Gogh.

And photographers do a lot of that... the subject is never quite the same, and neither is their response. And you can play with camera settings while keeping the camera itself completely still.
dharma_slut: They call me Mister CottonTail (Default)
posted by [personal profile] dharma_slut at 06:08am on 2013-11-08
Agreed! There are something like five "starry nights." Ten "sunflowers"...

And then there is this woman; https://www.google.com/search?q=Jay+DeFeo&oq=Jay+DeFeo
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 10:50am on 2013-11-08
Wow.

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