All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
