Saturday, September 15, 2001
2:48 PM
The artist's city. More like hamburger city.
Besides, they killed art years ago. They killed it and replaced it with a simulation. Then life was replaced with a simulation.
People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa. Then they quit going to see it at all. They'd just stitch it in on a screen. A picture of a picture on a screen. A knowing, tired nudge saying, We've seen it all, It's all been done. Don't try anything new. We've used up "New."
... The Romantics never believed that, though. They'd say, Maybe you've heard it and said it all, but I haven't. So art isn't dead. It's just holed up in some second-floor studio.
All the same, I say to hell with the Romantics. They were never a sensible bunch to begin with.
Paul Pope, Heavy Liquid.
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