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8 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“I’m placing a bet and wager that if I put this thing next to that thing, magic’s going to happen, it’s going to catch fire, and I just know it. I just know it, but sometimes it doesn’t work, but at least I tried.”
02 / evaluation
“Jasper is a really fascinating example, but I think quite rare in that early Jasper is very different from work of the ’70s, which is very different from the work of the ’80s, ’90s, et cetera.”
03 / evaluation
“I think I’ve said this other places: It is one of the things in life that you can get better at with the age, instead of worse, but you do reach a point where the physical body is a limitation, just how many hours a day you can work, how big you can work.”
04 / evaluation
“When we write about literature or sociology or something other than music, the medium with which we use to describe it is somehow aligned with the experience of it in the first place.”
05 / evaluation
“I think any good painting — really good painting — expresses something true about the time in which it was made and about the maker.”
06 / evaluation
“I don’t know, from the ’50s or the ’60s or ’70s — at a certain point, the experience of culture — whether it’s painting or something else — the nature of the experience shifted to something that had more in common with journalism than with what we might call “an aesthetic experience,” that works of art were thought to be about something.”
07 / evaluation
“That’s not always a healthy situation to be in. It is a profession — and again, I’m not in it, so I’m talking about it, looking at it from the outside; I could be wrong — it’s not a profession that has encouraged or rewarded mavericks very much.”
08 / evaluation
“Part of what happened in art writing and part of what happened in the visual arts — in America anyway but also, I think, probably all over the West, and maybe even all over the world — is the expansion of the audience.”