The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've learned to agree to disagree. I hope and pray that this program continues and we all keep in touch. I'm a st