The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and by analogy our own experience – more rather than less real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is even that it is what it is rather than to show what it means.
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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I remember when I was 33 or 34 it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
