A Gustave Courbet Portrait Of A Trout

What Does One Prefer? An Art That Struggles To Change The Social Contract, But Fails? Or One That Seeks To Please And Amuse, And Succeeds?

What Has Our Culture Lost In 1980 That The Avant-garde Had In 1890? Ebullience, Idealism, Confidence, The Belief That There Was Plenty Of Territory To Explore, And Above All The Sense That Art, In The Most Disinterested And Noble Way, Could Find The Necessary Metaphors By Which A Radically Changing Culture Could Be Explained To Its Inhabitants.

Most Of The Time They Buy What Other People Buy. They Move In Great Schools, Like Bluefish, All Identical. There Is Safety In Numbers. If One Wants Schnabel, They All Want Schnabel, If One Buys A Keith Haring, Two Hundred Keith Harings Will Be Sold.

It Was A Secular Cathedral, Dedicated To The Rites Of Travel.

The New Job Of Art Is To Sit On The Wall And Get More Expensive.