Currently, I am pulling together a presentation on John Hewitt's poem "An Irishman In Coventry." As a result, I am also looking at some of his other works, biography, etc. A little bit of academic bunny-trailing, if you will. Amidst the side-stepping, I came across his Notes on the Art of Picture Buying, which I found wonderfully humorous...Enjoy!
Never buy a picture because it reminds you of a place where you once
spent an enjoyable holiday. A photograph is cheaper.
Buy pictures to feed your soul, as Hafiz nearly said.
Avoid the derivative repetitive artist. If he's not perpetually enriching
his own experience he can't possibly enrich yours.
If an artist solves your imaginative or aesthetic problems you ought
to solve his financial problems.
Reproductions are referential data for students.
Wouldn't you like to have been the first to buy a Monet or a Matisse?
Take a chance now!
What was good enough for your father is just too bad.
Buy a picture before its painter becomes famous.
Sculpture lasts.
Have something in your house made by a human being for a human
being.
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