Someone on that AFC thread actually said something like "Sillman may not be Guston, but who is? Don't hold it against her." Pathetic.
I was thinking dumb as a painter the longer that thread got. Or at least whiny as a painter.
Peter Plagens has a different take on that phrase (found searching the French): "I don't think that the French literally think that painters have lower IQ's than, say, farmers or bank clerks, but they do think that painters are obstinately impractical in spending a lot of time and money on a useless hobby, especially if their spouses and children suffer from their impracticality."
Obstinate for sure: "you'll have to pry my brushes from my cold dead fingers."
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I was thinking dumb as a painter the longer that thread got. Or at least whiny as a painter.
Peter Plagens has a different take on that phrase (found searching the French): "I don't think that the French literally think that painters have lower IQ's than, say, farmers or bank clerks, but they do think that painters are obstinately impractical in spending a lot of time and money on a useless hobby, especially if their spouses and children suffer from their impracticality."
Obstinate for sure: "you'll have to pry my brushes from my cold dead fingers."
- tom moody 5-04-2010 8:30 pm