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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Critic

Born: July 28th, 1938

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