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

The truly radical work of art is the one that offers you something to hold on to in the midst of the flux of possibility.

The essential difference between a sculpture like Andre's Equivalent VIII, 1978, and any that had existed before in the past is that Andre's array of bricks depends not just partly, but entirely, on the museum for its context. A Rodin in a parking lot is still a misplaced Rodin; Andre's bricks in the same place can only be a pile of bricks. (p. 393)

Our culture puts enormous emphasis on "socialization", on the supposedly supreme virtues of establishing close relations with others.