What do you think is the value of making these kinds of transhistorical comparisons, with this fluid historical model, for art today?
Ian Wallace, “Interview with Curator Dieter Buchhart on Schiele, Twombly, and Basquiat,” 2014
[The Eiffel Tower’s] uses are doubtless incontestable, but they seem quite ridiculous alongside the overwhelming myth of the Tower, of the human meaning which it has assumed throughout the world. This is because here the utilitarian excuses, however ennobled they may be by the myth of Science, are nothing in comparison to the great imaginary function which enables men to be strictly human.
Roland Barthes, "On the Eiffel Tower," Paris, France, c. 1960