"There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?"

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Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

— Herman Melville