“High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relayrace, they all belong to the same stadium.”
