"The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful."

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The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them.

— John Coplans