A civilization that values chiefly what it can measure will produce expensive ugliness, as we observe.
May 022022
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Apr 132022
Where nonsense is tolerated, difficulty is banished.
Mar 292022
Not all religions proselytize, but all secular religions do.
Mar 112022
We defeat ourselves not with scarcity but surfeit: too much food, too much data, too much leisure, and far, far too much art.
Mar 012022
To become a popular artist, aim at the largest possible audience: children, and adults who prefer art for children.
Feb 082022
The apotheosis of the artist comes when he arrogates to himself the right to bore you.
Dec 312021
What has disappeared, with the decline of formal religion, is not religion but formality.
Dec 212021
A large reputation, like an impetus in a vacuum, can, in the absence of a countervailing force, be coasted on forever.
Dec 142021
Art can be serious but never sober.
Dec 012021
God is to theology what infinity is to mathematics.