Art Can Be Destroyed but Not Defeated

The Quarterback at Twilight: On Matthew Barney’s “Secondary”

"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">— Dr. Seuss</p>

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry