nighthawk at the diner: Paul Simonon, Bassist, The Clash
Today, a friend of mine educated me on the softer, more cerebral side of a punk rocker's heart.
I refer specifically to Paul Simonon, the bassist of a little band known formally
as The Clash, and his following quote:
"The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian, and we were Pollock.
As a painter, though, I'm essentially old-fashioned.
Conceptualism just doesn't do it for me.
I love Walter Sickert, Samuel Palmer, Rubens and Constable. That's just the way I am."
The qualities I find most attractive in a man
are the same that I appreciate in a Constable painting:
inwardly spiritual, moody, romantic, characterized by equal parts darkness and light.
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831.
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