Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

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

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.