the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Renata AdlerMoral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
Renata AdlerIt is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler