There Is Virtue In Virtuosity,

Political Stress Is Always Apt To Shrink The Private Arena And Attach It On To The Public

Indeed, The Idea That Doubt Can Be Heroic, If It Is Locked Into A Structure As Grand As That Of The Paintings Of Cezanne's Old Age, Is One Of The Keys To Our Century. A Touchstone Of Modernity Itself.

Perhaps The Rhinos And She-crocodiles Whose Gyrations Between Mortimer's And East Hampton Gives Us Our Vision Of Social Eminence Today Are Content To Entrust Their Faces To Andy Warhol's Mingily Cosmetic Polaroidising, But One Would Bet They Would Rather Go To Sargent.

Why Should We Expect Modernist Taste To Be Any Smarter Than Premodernist Or Postmodernist?

In Art There Is No Progress, Only Fluctuations Of Intensity.