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An artist attempts to finish his final major painting before his death. | dG1fMTdoWDRLdmdLQjQ
Transcript
00:00 [no audio]
00:13 You can't try to be original.
00:15 There's no such thing.
00:17 You can't be original.
00:19 There's paintings everywhere.
00:21 Everybody writes, everybody paints,
00:23 everybody does this, play music,
00:26 sing songs, theater,
00:28 all that sort of stuff.
00:30 You do it, you gotta do it for another reason.
00:33 You can't do it because you think
00:35 you're better than everybody else.
00:37 And besides, in fact, you're not.
00:40 You know, you're mediocre,
00:42 but your mind won't allow it to tell you.
00:46 I had a message from my friend in India.
00:50 He's my guru, I used to call him my guru.
00:53 And he said, "Your doer days are over."
00:57 It's time you start to love yourself.
01:01 [no audio]
01:09 So you may be right.
01:11 I may...
01:13 I got this painting here to do,
01:15 a few other things.
01:17 But I want to keep painting, of course.
01:20 What else? I'm going up the wall here.
01:23 I haven't painted in...
01:25 I haven't painted since January.
01:27 And this is, what, July sometime.
01:30 I haven't done anything.
01:32 A couple of drawings or something.
01:35 I was going to learn to play the ukulele.
01:39 I had to do something.
01:41 A funny thing happened, too,
01:43 because I said to Esther,
01:45 I said, "Go down to St. John's,
01:47 "buy me a ukulele.
01:49 "I'm going to learn to play,
01:51 "sing some songs or something."
01:53 I've got to do something.
01:55 So she goes down, she buys this,
01:57 I don't know, a hundred-pound ukulele or something.
02:00 And the next day I'll go deaf.
02:02 [laughing]
02:06 [piano music]