The ball has become the brownest brown it is currently capable of becoming. It will not get any browner, no matter how much more pummelling it receives.
On art and creativity, and the difference between the two
[FROM THE ARCHIVE] Something has happened to the word “art” and its offshoots — “artist”, “artistic”, “the Arts” — in recent years, and it troubles me.
I often catch myself quite unnecessarily jumping in to say what I’ve seen that I didn’t like. When I get started on that, I often find it difficult to shut myself up again.
