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

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

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

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