As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
