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“Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, “Why the Americans Are Often So Restless in the Midst of their Prosperity” (1835)
“When all prerogatives of birth and fortune have been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone …an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no
... See more“It doesn’t really matter if the viewer understand the concepts of the artist by seeing the art. Once out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.”
—Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
“we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver” (150).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton