Brass and Jerzy in “Art Imitates Life”

Brass

Maybe you, uh, maybe you bumped into him at a grocery store or something.

Jerzy

I don't go out. I don't shop. I don't bump.

Brass

But you do paint dead people.

Jerzy

I paint people who look dead, and you would weep if you knew how much I make doing that. If you haven't noticed our culture seems to be obsessed with sex and death.

Brass

I've noticed.

Jerzy

I'm gonna save you some time because I know what's on your mind. I don't kill my models. I don't even bang them much anymore, occasionally, of course, but I find not with same gusto and verve with as the days go by.

Brass

You bang Carla Perotti?

Jerzy

I'm not doing women.

Brass

You mind if I look around?

Jerzy

I'd like to paint you in the nude.

Brass

I don't do nude. Where would I pin the badge?

Jerzy

Exactly.