\u201cI remember when I had ideas about eternal greatness, when I wanted to be Leonardo da Vinci. Now I\u2019m in with the rock groups and the latest movie. Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. And maybe that\u2019s all it ever was, or is: a kind of stealing. A hijacking of the visual. I know it will be bad news. Still, I can\u2019t resist. I pull on my clothes, go down in search of the nearest paper box. I do have the decency to wait until I get upstairs before I open the paper. The bold print says: CROTCHETY ARTIST STILL HAS POWER TO DISTURB. I take note: artist instead of painter, the foreboding still, sign-pointing the way to senility. Andrea the acorn-headed ing\u00e9nue getting her own back. I\u2019m surprised she\u2019d use an old-fashioned word like crotchety. It manages to suggest both crotches and crocheting, both of which seem appropriate. But probably she didn\u2019t write the headline.\u201d<\/p>\n
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