The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.