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Works Of Art... Do Not Force Meanings On Their Audience; Meaning Emerges, Adds Up, Unfolds From Their Imagined Centres... Takes One Through The Process Of Discovering Meaning.

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

For The Machine Meant The Conquest Of Horizontal Space. It Also Meant A Sense Of That Space Which Few People Had Experienced Before – The Succession And Superimposition Of Views, The Unfolding Of Landscape In Flickering Surfaces As One Was Carried Swiftly Past It, And An Exaggerated Feeling Of Relative Motion (the Poplars Nearby Seeming To Move Faster Than The Church Spire Across The Field) Due To Parallax. The View From The Train Was Not The View From The Horse. It Compressed More Motifs Into The Same Time. Conversely, It Left Less Time In Which To Dwell On Any One Thing.

Confidence Is The Prize Given To The Mediocre

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.