On Ian Hamilton:
It was there, in Soho's legendary seaminess, that Mr. Hamilton honed his well-lubricated, sardonic humor. One of his famous lines came after a young poet declined an alcoholic drink on the grounds that it tasted bad and made him feel bad.
''Well, none of us likes it,'' Mr. Hamilton said.
From Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing
I had just been introduced to wine and | remember being a little drunk and viewing the Place de la Concorde lit up at night and it was so beautiful, and I shook my fist at Paris like a character in Balzac and said wistfully, “You old whore.” Unfortunately, I was facing a lady tourist from Detroit at the time and she didn’t appreciate it.
On Philip P.
Mr. Pearlstein declared war on what he called the “two tyrannies” of modern art. The first was an insistence on the flatness of the picture plane. The second was the roving point of view — the demolition of three-point perspective by artists like Cézanne and Picasso, who eliminated volume from the human form and fractured its contours.
“A moralistic ban has been placed on spatial illusionism,” he wrote in ARTnews in 1962. “But it is an arbitrary ban. The flatness of the picture plane is no more a truth than was the flatness of the world before Columbus.” That year, he exhibited his figure drawings at the Allan Frumkin Gallery in Manhattan.
M Herron:
‘Did you look at the files?’
Of course not?
There were ways of telling when someone was lying. The direction their eyes were pointing, for instance: left for memory, right for creation. But Sid’s eyes were directed straight at River’. Which meant she wasn’t lying, or else was very good at it. They’d done the same courses, after all.
Shadow of the Thin Man:
What happened?
You know that jockey Gomez... the one that was caught throwing the 4th race yesterday?
Mmhm
He was shot.
My! They're strict at this track.
