The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events. - Robert Hughes

No original Gauguins were to be seen in Australia, for post-impressionism was officially thought to be the vulgar effusion of five-thumbed lunatics. (p. 24)

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.