The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos… — Robert Hughes

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

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.