2 Best Pictures Monologues

Category: Play Role: Joe From: Pictures

Joe says

Discouraging? It’s immoral!

Oh, these smug people who have been taught what to admire! These unborn souls who want to shut us all up in the dark! I suppose he went away thinking I put myself up higher than Raphael.

Who are we painting for? They don’t want it -wouldn’t take it for a gift. And here we are, a poor little group, standing amazed before the glory of the sun, and painting it -for the blind!

Some day -yes, when the life has oozed out of all our bright canvasses, when only the “rules” are left. And we won’t be able to rise from our graves and curse them!

I guess I let you in for a hard time, Silvia. I wish sometimes I could really paint the kind of thing that goes with stupid people’s dining rooms.

They with their Long Island Louvres!

Category: Play Role: Joe From: Pictures

Joe says

Those pictures don’t give out impulses to the artist.

The impulses they do give out are only the emotions that satisfy the student who has learned some rules and then sees the rules worked out.

The artist produced the rules as a side issue, but you are trying to make the rules produce the artist. T

hat’s the difficulty when people as a whole lose the creative sense. They are satisfied with things at second-hand. Second-hand expressions of life, and second-hand philosophies to justify the expressions. It’s a kind of conspiracy in which everybody works against everybody else.

Only the few real artists in any generation break through it into the light.