Landscape Is To American Painting What Sex

I Have Never Been Against New Art As Such; Some Of It Is Good, Much Is Crap, Most Is Somewhere In Between.

It Was Van Gogh's Madness That Prevented Him From Working; The Paintings Themselves Are Ineffably Sane, If Sanity Is To Be Defined In Terms Of Exact Judgment Of Ends And Means And The Power Of Visual Analysis.

We Want To Create A Sort Of Linguistic Lourdes, Where Evil And Misfortune Are Dispelled By A Dip In The Waters Of Euphemism

But The Existence Of A Cult Does Not Mean That Images Appropriate To It Automatically Follow.

It Is An Oldish Question, But Not Perhaps A Very Interesting One, Whether Cooking Is An Art Or Not.