Josh Smith Talks About Currents, 2008- /// Art Forum Feb 09

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I enjoyed:
"...I can just look at anything and paint it. Maybe not perfectly, but I can do it. I can make a really good painting. Last year, I started making paintings of fish that way. I thought it would be nice to have a big painting on the wall of a fish jumping. That is exciting. It makes you wonder why it is there. It makes you proud of seeing it. There's a stupidity to it—and then again, it's nature. Courbet made a career out of that..." Josh Smith