In Art There Is No Progress, Only

Most Of The Time They Buy What Other People Buy. They Move In Great Schools, Like Bluefish, All Identical. There Is Safety In Numbers. If One Wants Schnabel, They All Want Schnabel, If One Buys A Keith Haring, Two Hundred Keith Harings Will Be Sold.

No Art Goes Unmediated By Other Art.

Why Should We Expect Modernist Taste To Be Any Smarter Than Premodernist Or Postmodernist?

The Point Of A Library's Existence Is Not Persuasion Or Evangelism, But Knowledge. It Is Irrelevant To The Good Library Whether, As An Institution, It Shares Or Promotes Your Core Values Or Mine, Or The Attorney General's Or Saddam Hussein's. The Library Is Always An Instrument Of Choice, And The Choice Is Always Yours, Not Your Elected Or Designated Leaders.

Far From Affording Artists Continuous Inspiration, Mass-media Sources For Art Have Become A Dead End. They Have Combined With The Abstractness Of Institutional Art Teaching To Produce A Fine-arts Culture Given Over To Information And Not Experience. This Faithfully Echoes The Drain Of Concreteness From Modern Existence- The Reign Of Mere Unassimilated Data Instead Of Events That Gain Meaning By Being Absorbed Into The Fabric Of Imaginative Life.