Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own… — Robert Hughes
Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.
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