Samtal om konst

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There isn’t any answer.
How long hasn’t there been any answer?
As long as I can remember.
And how long have you written?
As long as I can remember.
I mean poetry.
So do I.
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Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.
Easy?
Of course – you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.
I never met him.
Who?
Everybody.
E.E. Cummings