Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

It leaves you with a kind of empty feeling,

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.