22 October 1999 - four kinds of art

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There are four kinds of art. Junk art is kids’ drawings, marginal doodles—stuff with personal value only. Commercial art is mass-produced art for money. Fine art is commercial art for more money. Real art is junk art found, after the artist is dead, to be wonderful.

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