What is new and curious about postmodernism is that it is an anti-rationalist form of thought that has seduced part of the left.

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Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont (1955) Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals’ abuse of science, New York- Picador, p. 198

The Sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building.

—Louis Kahn quoted by Charles Moore in Junichiro Tanizaki (1933) In Praise of Shadows, London: Random House p. 1

If the labor of art production is outsourced to others, while the artist and the market benefit by the surplus value it produces, it is merely a perpetuation of the exploitation that creates conditions of alienation in our society.

—Anton Vidockle

(Source: e-flux.com)

You do not have a aesthetic experience because the object is beautiful or because it is a work of art, but just the reverse - it is beautiful because you are looking at it aesthetically; [an object aspires to be a work of] art because it has been made to be looked at aesthetically.

—Blocker, G. H. & Jeffers, J. M. (1999) Contextualising Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard, Wadsworth Publishing Company, p. xi

To take an idea that has already been intellectually formulated and then try to dress it up in a work of art could therefore only produce a very mediocre and inferior artwork - a kind of propaganda or cliche.

—Blocker, G. H. & Jeffers, J. M. (1999) Contextualising Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard, Wadsworth Publishing Company, p. 58