…However, with values in the plural, such comparisons would not work. It's nonsensical to debate which is more beautiful between a Rembrandt and a Monet. The result of this distinction between value and values is that a clear line is drawn between two…

…genius. which is the process of singling out certain people in art history and saying those are the important ones, Picasso, Rembrandt, Shostakovich, whatever. Whenever you look at any of those artists, you find that they lived and drew from a very, very…

…else was doing, and he was picking it up and distilling it and doing his own shuffle on it. And similarly with Rembrandt and Shostakovich and Beethoven, everybody else, all these people who are called genius actually sat in the middle of something that I…