Not theory of composition by itself leads to the production of music, or of art. There must be some hidden complexity.

Can abstract art recover any of the utopian and spiritually trancendent ambitions it was associated with the early modernist era, the heroic age of Kandinsky, Malevich and the historical avant-garde ?

W.J.T. Mitchell

Contemporary interest in conceptual art does not require an understanding of form, which consequently is not taught

Risking ornamentality as pictures of pretty girls.