What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.