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Like Andy Warhol. I can’t do what I'm doing without assistants. Asst allow us to grow our work yet remain the same. Julian Opie by Rose Aidin The Observer
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What benefit is there for an artist to having an assistant? I believe an asst is the buffer an artist needs to maintain his/her creative flow. An artist should not bee bogged down with paperwork and…Continue
Started by Deborah Kitchen Mar 5, 2011.
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Comment by Deborah Kitchen on March 4, 2011 at 10:40am -
I want to bring my two loves together, artists and assisting.
- By placing an advertisement in the Guardian - unheard of in the word-of-mouth inner sanctums of the art world - Julian Opie was making explicit and public the impact that assistants can have upon an artist's career. 'It's always frustrated me the way in which the British art world can be very amateur. I want to delve into the world on every level and produce fabulously made work like that of Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol. I couldn't do what I'm doing without full-time assistants. Nor could I do it without a computer. But even without, I'd still be an artist and I'd still make things. That's my nature - just like a fish that grows to the size of the tank, assistants allow us to grow our work yet remain the same.' Rose Aidin
- The Observer, Sunday 12 October 2003
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