"The machine lost. The machine won."

- David Runciman, How Democracy Ends (2018)

 

“Art isn’t, can’t be, a temple from which the incompetent, the charlatan, the chancer and the publicity-chaser should be excluded; art is more like a refugee camp where most are queueing for water with a plastic jerry-can in their hand.”

- Julian Barnes, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (2012)