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In a recent issue of THE NEW YORKER art critic Peter Schjeldahl explores the work of painter Edward Hopper, describing him as "the visual bard of American solitude," and observing that "once you've seen a Hopper, it stays seen, lodged in your mind's eye." 

Hopper, describing his style, explained: “I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”

Exasperated by questions of what his works meant, he squelched one interviewer by exclaiming, “I’m after ME.”

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Everyone is inspired by a different muse, and you follow your muse

                                                –– MAD magazine cartoonist Al Jaffe

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Make Good Art

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

Make good art.

I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

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