…the crisis is nothing. It depends. It's a crisis. It's an opportunity. What it is is that art is becoming eschatological. From Duccio on, from the close of the medieval period on, art was conceived of a series of self transcending styles, moving toward…

…St. John of the Cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of Caravaggio and Duccio and Fra Angelico, and I was amazed. I had never heard such carryings on. Well now, if you go back and look at…

…the crisis is not. It depends. It's a crisis. It's an opportunity. What it is is that art is becoming eschatological. From Duccio on, from the close of the medieval period on, art was conceived of a series of self transcending styles moving toward various…

…I mean, where are you going to get Milton? Where are you going to get Einstein? Where are you going to get Bach and Duccio and all the rest of the gang out of the world of hummingbirds, chipmunks, and glaciers? So I don't think we should sell…

…painting, which was something that, you know, they'd been angling toward it for 250 years from Pier della de Francesca and Duccio and that crowd on until they got actually to Caravaggio and the prospectivists. There was this sense of this thing breaking…

…beginning with the proto Renaissance, the Fra Angelico, and all of that, and then coming down through Donatello, not Duccio, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, the whole bit. And the whole thing reaches culmination right down here…