Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts -- ...
To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies public conversation is an exercise in using words ...
