Thursday, May 10, 2007

Hey You Six

I'm reading an article in Spread. It's an interview with Kanye West in which he says this:

I was never interested in Picasso or Basquiat. People think it's blasphemous that I don't like Basquiat. But I never liked his work. I like John Currin a lot, who's got a master's level of artistry. I appreciate art that I look at and think, "Damn, I could never do that." ... It's the same with fashion: Handmade or couture stuff, hand-done embroidery, et cetera, people look at it and say, "That's art." The innate sensibility is that things made by hand are art. When things are thrown together in 30 minutes, my sensibility says, "That's not art. That's not what I like." One thing that's great about architecture is that you know manual labor was involved, that people's hands plastered and placed every little thing.

I was so shocked that Kanye West and I agreed on something that I had to share with the six of you. Me and Kanye? I thought we couldn't be more different, but it turns out we're thinking alike on some things. I wonder what he'd think of Balogna Man.

1 comment:

Sarcasticalwit said...

He had me at "George Bush hates black people." ...as Mike Myers stares on dumbfounded.