What’s in a stroke that makes it fine?
Is the paint from a tube or can?
The canvas: cotton or concrete?
Is the subject people or lines?

Will it play it safe, or get banned?
Is the art style bold or discreet?
Created free-form or designed?
From scratch versus digital scan?

The studio: room or a street?
T-shirt and jeans or dressed to the nines?
Unhoused or a wealthy baron?
Any of this make it replete?

Photo by Luca Nicoletti on Unsplash

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