How much art is unoriginal?
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Joshua discusses the existence of art without the "prerequisite of originality" with singer-songwriter Jay Nash. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists
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| 0:00.0 | Don Minimists. |
| 0:03.4 | Aubrey asks, do you think you have to come up with an original idea to have it be considered |
| 0:08.8 | art? Or can you do something in the creative field really well without having to reinvent |
| 0:15.3 | the wheel? I'm a food photographer and I feel like I can't come up with a different |
| 0:18.9 | idea to photograph a cheeseburger, but I can photograph it so that it looks delicious |
| 0:24.2 | and it makes my clients happy. Do you have ideas on how to gain inspiration without looking |
| 0:29.5 | at Pinterest or other people's art? Well, I mean, if you're a food photographer and |
| 0:35.8 | we were just talking about this before, we even started like, we're all food photographers |
| 0:39.6 | now. We should send a connecting email to her and Andrew. Andrew Bell, who for a period |
| 0:48.5 | of time had a great food podcast called Stemma, but he is, he's actually a good food photographer |
| 0:54.0 | and he's a great chef and he's a great photographer. He's also an incredible artist. Yeah, I |
| 1:02.4 | really got the triple threat. He really does. Somehow he's able to balance those things. |
| 1:07.0 | He's one of the most talented musicians today for sure and creates these beautiful bodies |
| 1:14.8 | of work that stand alone and then also in his free Tommy photographs his own meals. |
| 1:22.8 | Because it has to be original to be considered art, that's the question. What about like, |
| 1:29.6 | think of war halls work. They're like the Campbell's Soup series, which in and of itself, |
| 1:40.5 | it's a simple painting rendering of a soup can with different colors, but it pulls various |
| 1:47.8 | emotions from the viewer. It's simultaneously original and not original. I think we had Andrew |
| 1:57.4 | sholts on the show as a comedian and one of the things that he said that really stood out to me, |
| 2:01.4 | he said, the thing is we're not comfortable with it is and it isn't. Is it original? Yes, is it |
| 2:07.6 | not original? Yes, I think both of those things can be true. The world is not binary. The world |
| 2:13.4 | is not black and white. I think if she is finding enjoyment, if she is finding some inspiration in it, |
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