In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. — Robert Hughes

The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.