re: #693 Cineaste

Banal images are cheapening, but so is a perpetual stance of pater les bourgeois

I am sick of shit masquerading as art.
— Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize, 1998, Evening Standard

The temptation to be a curmudgeon is hard to withstand. When a drama critic encounters a “Gay Fantasia” or an art critic encounters an exhibition of soiled teddy bears — indeed when anyone trained in anything encounters the self-congratulatory work of someone trained in nothing — it is very difficult to resist the temptation to lay back one’s ears and bray.
— J. Bottum