Old Masters make you a better rockstar
January 15 2016
Picture: Telegraph
The New York Times has re-run an interview with the late David Bowie, in which he talks about his art collection:
I have a couple of Tintorettos, which I’ve had for many, many years. I have a Rubens. Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
There's also this acute assessment of the Chapman brothers:
I’m not a huge fan of the Chapmans. It’s this sniggering little schoolboy kind of thing, and I refuse to take it seriously. They seem to me to have achieved a certain fame by doing one thing — which is, in a way, an illustration of the problem. I think their art has the same kind of spin as Jerry Springer.
Ouch.
