Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Smoke gets in art’s eyes



(thespec.com) Sigmund Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
And Rene Magritte wrote the words Ceci n’est pas un pipe (“This is not a pipe”) under his painting of a pipe. And if you were to argue that it is indeed a pipe, he would suggest you try to put tobacco in it.
I say, if you think smoking is bad for us, look what it does to the cigarette. Continued

Photo: Marcel Duchamp

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