翠西·艾敏一位艺术家独白.docVIP

翠西·艾敏一位艺术家独白 　　people who love my work love it. They， yeah， they...they think it’s really intimate and really honest and everything. People who don’t like my work think it’s sentimental and 1）crass. 　　You’ve got to keep yourself free and honest to...to you， true to what you’re doing， because otherwise you just...you just get lost， you just end up being depressed and really weird and questioning what the whole thing about art is all about anyway. 　　I make art that is really， really personal， so people felt that they could attack me through the art because I was putting myself out there with this personal language. Because， even though they were critics， they didn’t have the intelligence to still understand that of course it’s the separation from me. 　　Art is...is perceived differently in different places at different times by different people， so there’s nothing I’ve done to be controversial or shocking. I’m a fighter. God am I a fighter！ If I 2）retaliated， God help them. You know， that’s not a threat. It’s just that I need my energy for my art. I need my energy for myself. If I start retaliating on every tiny...tiny battle， I would never win my war with myself as being an artist. It’s difficult being an artist. It goes against the grain of things， and， for that reason I need all my self-strength and 3）stamina. I can’t go around fighting all those little battles with people， you know. 　　A n d I h a d this massive big 4）sledgehammer and I’ve got all my paintings， carried them downstairs， put them in the middle of the courtyard and got the sledgehammer， and I smashed them to 5）smithereens， and they were all wood， a lot of them， as well on 6）hardboard， and then...and I had blood running off my hands and I was screaming and everything I was doing. And now， if I had known， I would have had filmed it. Would have been fantastic， so... 　　I’ve managed to overcome a lot of difficulties in my life， and I’ve managed to do it really well， and that is through my love of art