“Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself”— Oscar Wilde Related Quotes “My experience with life is that it’s very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.”— Jasper Johns “The ironic, too-cool meta satire, the sneering and mocking? Is actually just a contemporary version of the bourgeois sentimentality it’s trying to mock. It is not new. Really it’s almost quaint. The backlash has already outlasted it.”— Tony Tulathimutte “The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.”— Walter Benjamin