Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
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.
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.