“Was it just that, at 12:46pm, that early modern Europe was simply the most conducive state for producing, what I suppose I would call, monumental art?”
“Art as a monument… I don’t know.”
“I suppose that we’re creating a lot now, and I would probably argue that those cultural documents that are of a truly monumental nature will survive one hundred, two hundred, years into the future.”
“Talk about a culture shift… John Lennon would be 66 this year… Ringo Starr is. When my kids are 13, and therefore at the age I was when I discovered the Beatles, then Ringo will likely be in his eighties… when Tommy Lee is 80…” *shudder*
“Man, the world is so decadent now… and the west, shamless. How else can you describe reality TV?”