No sensible person would confuse precision with importance in intellectual life.
Tooth fairies are potentially the most powerful art device because emotions and memory are built into them.
(...) Following a familiar logic, which assumes that the decadent is inherently inferior in value than the non-decadent.
The average piece of cute bug artwork is made from parts (psychology + chemistry + economics) that are in proportion to each other in predictable ways.
It had been claimed by formalist critics like Clement Greenberg and Donald Judd that a scientific theory of visual arts is not possible because human behaviors do not follow predictable patterns.
Artspeak is peppered with cloudy statements about ornamentation and decadence.