With hindsight, one can perhaps see that unachievable projects were the right monuments to an ideal. Because they were not built, they could not be d… - Robert Hughes

Enforced solitude, as in solitary confinement, is a terrible and disorienting punishment, but freely chosen solitude is an immense blessing. To be out of the rattle and clang of quotidian life, to be away from the garbage of other people's amusements and the overflow of their unwanted subjectivities, is the essential escape. Solitude is, beyond question, one of the worlds great gifts and an indispensable aid to creativity, no matter what level that creation may be hatched at.

Some new works of art have values of some kind or another. Others, the majority, have little or none. But newness as such, in art, is never a value.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.