The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

It's not a bad consolation prize for not being in the Grey Cup,

What are we doing (getting) a consolation prize for saying we blocked better than the other guys? Yippee,

He went out so quickly we wanted to offer him a consolation prize and get him into the Web sites' biggest weekly tournament. This way we were able to keep him in the room and have him communicate with our community. It served a two-fold purpose and it seemed to make him happy.