"A cult is a religion with no political power."
"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
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Source: Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan
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