Did you know most of Jon Sarkin's 20,000 works were drawn on cardboard he pulled out of record-store free bins? The full story drops Tuesday. Subscribe now.

"it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. i am glad to be alive!!" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"i am a human being drawn on a piece of dirty paper. who are you to think about my dreams?" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

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"aren't, speekin' metaphoric'ly, alluh our drawings ufinished?" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"why do i draw on a dirty ripped paper? something in my brain makes me. will neuroscience ever understand?" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

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"i, yorick, know myself well. where be my jibes now? i will tell you, for shuffling off this mortal coil is a joyfilled rhebus." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"success as an original performance. only the fact that it was recorded has saved it from total obscurity." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"i am not me. you're not you. you are me. i am him." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"i must emphasize that i am not jon sarkin. my name is howard jackson. i am a shoe salesman." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"we are the cardboard men. we are the corrugated men. "card boarding" together, our heads filled with mushy particle board, when we "album cover" together, our hearing is as feeble as the whispers of a very old man." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"transforming a piece of filthy cardboard into art is transubstation of the highest order." JS-2022-8290 · Drawing on cardboard album sleeve · 2022 catalog.jonsarkin.com · launching May 2026

Jon wrote MINOTAUR over 100 times on this piece. Then, in lowercase, he told you why. JS-2021-8320 · Marker and ink on paper · 2021 Catalog launching May 2026

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