Platt
Why does it seem that any discussion of Art soon reduces to swapping aphorisms?
Here's another for your collection.
"What is it about us, the public, and what is it about conformity itself that
causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with
consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally
celebrate those who do not?" Ben Shahn
To which the whole of Pirsig's celebrity discussion can then be appended.
Dave
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