Tony Hancock on modern art ~ to Sid James:
I quite like it. That's how the artist sees his model in his subconscious; it's symbolic. I mean, the pear-shaped motif is obvious to the perceptive eye, and his cubist conception of the over-all form is quite enthralling - a clearly defined attempt to reduce life to a pattern of basic mathematical formula. On the other hand, it's a very good likeness of that bird you took out last week.