If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.
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But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.Bruce Nauman
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
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And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
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In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
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And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
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And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
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