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Created by Cody Skinner
Cody received the art above as part of Volume Ten, “The Challenge Edition,” in which contributors selected art for each other. He used it as the basis of his work.
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And the Devil said to him, and this is what the Devil really said, what the Devil said to him was:
I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists. MY STYLE of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after. I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular. Anyway if you don’t make the best song I have ever heard, and I think you can because you are a great, great, beautiful artist, things are going to get real sour for you.
(In the event that the recording linked to in the text above is removed due to a copyright claim, please see this twitter thread to understand exactly what you would have enjoyed.)
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W. Cody Skinner is a retired punk, father, husband, toxic bro, and stone cold chiller. Follow him on twitter: @codyskinnerfan
