[LEMONS] 10.23.2001
"Painting should be part of people's lives and not separate from the world like a precious object. I feel like a baker making cakes, making a good quality object that's affordable to everyone from college professors to high school kids. I want buying my my paintings to be like buying a CD: It's art, it's cheap and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with no boundaries and that kind of expansiveness is what I want to come across in my work." -- Steve Keene.
This is why I own 3 of Steve's paintings, and it's one of the reasond I love so called "outsider art" (aside from Finster getting me into it at an early age. It's art for the people by the people. you don't need no high-falootin' art degree to appreciate it. It isn't ugliness, or a blank canvas, or conceptual. It's truth and beauty on a piece of plywood. It's Hank Williams and Buddy Holly, not Phillip Glass and John Cale.
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