 It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. |
| A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. |
| Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. |
| Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. |
| The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. |
| It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. |
| 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. |
| The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
| Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. |
| Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. |
