Brian Sewell...art critic extraordinaire...i like him actually (despite his views on Newcastle) cos he's so honest rather like someone else we all know
lol 'Mr Sewell's first comment about Newcastle as he steps off the train at Central Station is: "It's very Eastern European isn't it? Sort of the outskirts of Zagreb."'
(i tried to find a more recent pic but to be honest, its hardly changed)
On Newcastle he says: "It's dinky. I am surprised everybody knows who I am."
During an interview Mr Sewell says: "Forgive me, but I think Newcastle is pretty hideous and not getting any better."
On the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, he says: "It looks like one of those old-fashioned machines that you use for slicing eggs."
On the Angel of the North, he says: "It's a totem. It's a fetish. It's just there, but don't tell me it's a work of art.
"Don't tell me that it has become like one of those things that you can come back to over and over again and still get that wallop in your stomach that a real work of art will give you every single time. It's bad engineering."
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