He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary. What a loss.I'm devastated.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

What's left is a cultural economy where only the privileged can afford to create, and where only immediately profitable art survives.

The erosion of funding for seed and grassroots spaces is part of a wider liberal tendency to strip away the socially democratic infrastructure that actually makes art possible.