"Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity."

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

— Al Alvarez