What Artists Talk About When They Talk About Their Art

And why it’s hard to say anything truly meaningful

Christopher P Jones
6 min readApr 24, 2019

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Photo by Yannis Papanastasopoulos on Unsplash

When I was at art college — many years ago now — I learnt two things very quickly.

The first was that, if you’re going to make it as a practicing artist, you must not only be passionate, but also sociable, canny, eclectic, pompous (but not too much), fierce…

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