![]() ![]() Then we renovated our house and took all the art out, and then we got sick. I was studying propaganda and totalitarianism, and so that was kind of rough. And some of it featured war scenes, so there was a real harshness. Some of that featured Lenin and, you know, he was a very bad guy. Some of them were pretty brutal because I bought a lot of Soviet realist art. Then we put art all over the house - like 300 paintings. Which ones have flaws?’ She’d point out the flaws, and then we’d end up with a collection of about five, and I’d buy them. I would go in and look at hundreds of paintings and then I’d select like 20, and I’d print them out, put them on the floor, and then Tammy would come in, and I’d say, ‘Get rid of 15 of these. ![]() You can afford that, but you have to have some taste. ![]() I bought collections of 40 Impressionist paintings from Russia for like $200 - $5 a painting. If you develop your taste, you can find art online for nothing. And for those of you who think you can’t afford art, art is free taste is expensive. I looked at 300 or 400 paintings a day for six years, and I bought about 500 paintings. I went online (on eBay mostly), and I looked at, I think, a million paintings. This is part of beautifying the house, let’s say - not just putting it in order. Jordan Peterson’s new series on marriage. The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. ![]()
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