Giving Credit

[VisualThinker7@zzzzzzz]

The hectic daily rat race of getting liquored up, driving around the ranch
looking for birds to kill, shooting lawyers, rushing them to the hospital, and
avoiding the press has kept me so busy that I'm only now getting around to
expressing my thoughts on the topic.

If I send work to a printer, and he decides that changes need to be made to
accomodate the limitations of his printing equipment - I don't believe he
should  receive any credit or royalties whatsoever. What's to stop him from
claiming  that adjustments or decisions were required, JUST so he can claim partial
credit  for my work?

If I have all of my work executed by others, the value is in my decisions
and instructions to them. I'm no less of an artist. The artistic element is in
the decisions that are made.

A drawing by picasso consisting of a few lines is very valuable, because he
decided where to draw the lines. A mobile by Calder consisting of a few sheets
 of steel connected by cables is what it is because of his decisions.
I used to paint and when I go to galleries I sometimes have a great time
talking with painters because I recognize the decisions they made in the process
of painting, and prompt them to talk about it by asking the right questions.
Some paintings have thousands of brush strokes; each one represents a
decision.

My own work is mine because I chose to gather the rocks from the  moraine,
chose which ones to connect, and chose how to position them in relation  to each
other.
If i pay someone to drill the holes, hoist the stones, and connect them  with
dowels I provide, it's still entirely my work.