I is Another by Jon Fosse
Author:Jon Fosse [Fosse, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
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AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture with the two lines that cross near the middle and itâs morning and todayâs Thursday and Iâve lit the stove and the room is starting to get warm, and yesterday I drove to Bjørgvin and delivered my paintings to Beyer, I think, and I feel exhausted and I stand in front of the easel and I look at those two lines that cross near the middle, one brown and one purple and I think that I donât like this picture, because I canât stand pictures that directly paint feelings even if Iâm the only one who knows it, that isnât the kind of thing I paint, itâs not the kind of thing I want to paint, because a painting can certainly be filled with feelings but you shouldnât paint feelings themselves, like screaming and weeping and wailing, I think, and I think that this is a truly bad painting, thatâs what it is, but at the same time it is what it needs to be, what itâs going to be, itâs done and thereâs no more to do on it and I hear à sleik say St Andrewâs Cross, emphasizing the words, he says the words with pride, emphasizing them, itâs revolting, and it is a St Andrewâs Cross, I think and I think that I need to put the picture away, or maybe I should just paint over it with white? I could do that, and once Iâve done it and the paint dries I can start painting a new picture on top of the St Andrewâs Cross, but I donât want to do that, I donât have any desire to paint over this picture, in fact I have no desire whatsoever to paint anymore at all, I think, and the only thing I considered painting was painting over this picture in white, the same as Iâve done with so many other pictures, but I didnât do it, and maybe thatâs because thereâs something in this picture after all? maybe itâs a good picture even though I donât like it? I think, because that often happens, that the pictures I dislike most are the best ones, and the ones I like best are the worst ones, strangely enough, thatâs the way it often is, how good or bad something is doesnât have anything to do with how much I like it or donât like it, only with how good or bad it is, whether itâs good art or bad art, because art is about quality, not about liking or not liking it, not at all, and itâs not about taste either, quality is something that just exists in the picture whether itâs beautiful or ugly, and anyway for something to be beautiful it has to also be ugly, thatâs how it is, and of course good and evil exist in the same way, and right and wrong, and true and false, of course it can be hard to say whether
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