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Surrealism and the Moment (1942), letter to THE VIEW

Dear Ford:

By your persistence you are beginning to prove something. AND you’re creating the impossible magazine of the arts no one could have dreamed. You know how many plans there are for making a new magazine. Everyone is trying. That is why they fail. You are not trying. That is why you succeed…

The principal thing is, Don’t try. Thus you have made a realized magazine, a normal, healthy magazine: by not trying. To me (though I do not claim it to be a profound options) Surrealism is just that: Don’t try. An incentive to creation…

Brilliant articles cry out to be written. Why bother? No one would read them. The thing is, make the things that such world shaking deductions would imply and OMIT the deductions. There’s a nice word, OMIT. It looks odd. Truncated. Rather close to VOMIT. It might save the world. Omit trying too hard, just enter and look about and do, etc., etc.

Exposure #87: N.Y.C., 401 Broadway, 03.15.11, 4:22 p.m.
2011
3 parts: 92 x 137 cm/36 x 54 inches each

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