It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.
I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.
Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.