Weekend Words: Damage
This week, more curiosities from the art world's stratosphere. Intrigued, Weekend Words looks at forms of damage.
This week, more curiosities from the art world’s stratosphere. As Agustino Fontevecchia reported in Forbes.com:
On Tuesday, less than two weeks after [billionaire Steven Cohen’s] hedge fund, SAC Capital, settled insider trading charges with the SEC for more than $600 million, news broke of his latest acquisition: a $155 million painting by Pablo Picasso titled “Le Reve” from fellow billionaire Steve Wynn, who infamously put his elbow through the piece back in 2006 as Cohen was about to buy it from him.
Somehow the mishap by Wynn, who reportedly has an eye disease, raised the painting’s value, because the price of the repaired Picasso was $16 million higher than it was in ’06.
Intrigued, Weekend Words looks at other forms of damage:
“Whenever God prepares evil for a man, He first damages his mind, with which he deliberates.”
—Anon. Annotation to Sophocles’ Antigone
“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”
—Stephen King
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
—Ernest Hemingway on F. Scott Fitzgerald, from A Moveable Feast.
“The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature”.
—George Orwell
“I caught you knocking at my cellar door,
I love you baby can I have some more
Oh oh the damage done”
—Neil Young, from “Needle and the Damage Done”
