"Those who add to the sum of ugliness are welcome to do so, but they have made themselves irrelevant."Ah, if only they 1) knew how irrelevant they were, 2) admitted it, and 3) quit claiming to be relevant.
He continues:
"No artistic standard, once erased, as has ever been replaced by a more technically demanding one."
"It’s not so much the redefinition of standards that bothers me as the glee with which the old standards are trashed, and the sense that the arts have become unmoored from the larger culture."
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