Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
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The prisons are the monuments of Australia-the Paestums of an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class.
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One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
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I can work four hours on the right side of the project and go back to the left side, and it's all changed.
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
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