Your style is who you are when youโre not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
John CurrinCulture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.
John CurrinYou have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.
John CurrinIt's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.
John Currin