Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan, That was the greatest response I've read in months! I'm still laughing, as is my wife. Great!!! Jim At 08:19 PM 4/9/98 +0200, you wrote: > Jim Brick said > >>. Art >> is in the eye of the beholder. What is art to one person, is junk to >> another. That's why artists make a lot of money selling but-ugly >sculptures >> to city councils all over the US. And they then plant them out front >where >> no one can avoid looking at them. > >You nailed it Jim, >I was taking a break in the sun opposite a sculpture on the Eindhoven >campus, when I noticed the similarity of what was left of my sandwich to >that piece of art. A few more nibbles and there it was .. a 10,000 dollar >sandwich fragment. > >What gall must it take, to go to the Mayor with my half-eaten sandwich and >tell him that for only $10k I will build him a twenty ton replica and put >it on his lawn? > >Alan Hull >