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What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
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In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.
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What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
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The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.
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The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
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How immeasurably fortunate my father was in his faith!
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