I hate modern architecture, but it hated me first.
Dec 312019
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Dec 262019
The idea that art should relate to the audience is exactly backwards.
Nov 222019
It is to what we now call manic phases that we owe a great part of the imperishable works of human civilization.
Oct 252019
We invent most of what we purport to find in art, which we call great when our stories about it please us sufficiently.
Sep 122019
Yesterday’s distant dream, today’s brilliant innovation, tomorrow’s basic human right.
Aug 302019
Christianity is like life insurance: you have to die to collect.
Aug 202019
In art incompetence is usually taken for directness and sincerity.
Aug 152019
Art in which adults can take no pleasure is unfit for children.
Jul 252019
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
Jul 082019
It is on the most dubious propositions that we lavish our most ardent desires.