« (From the Role of the Standard, p. 167, Chapter 5, The Endless Spiral of Time) We already know the paradoxes and impasses of what Octavio Paz called "the tradition of the new." What happens to the deviation from the norm in the absence of a standard How to distinguish the avant-garde from kitsch, when the bulk of the troupe is avant-garde? Without classicism in pushback (teaching, corpus, canon and competition), the protest disintegrates into bric-a-brac. Moreover, the multiplication of the unusual precipitates a renewal of forms and processes; hence the precariousness of innovations, the wear and tear of the eyes, and the final return to the original indifferentiated. Too much news trivializes the new, and by dint of events, the show becomes the audience. A cocktail of openings, without beginning or end, passing from one gallery to another, covering with a confused and identical rumor of surprising quirks that follow each other on the walls at full speed, without surprising anyone: thus accelerates, from decade to decade, the gradual obsolescence of the unusual pictorial. »

« The annals suggest that the title role on the world stage lasts no more than five centuries, before a supporting role takes the lead. From the Quattrocento to the American century, Western Europe has fulfilled its contract, and can leave pole position with its head held high. »

« Globalization that standardizes the material, tribalizes the mind (this because it), at the very moment when computer science is globalizing the tribe. A Corsican-independence website uses the Internet to list "real Corsicans of origin" all over the world. The 'crucible of cultures' has nothing of the 'cracking' hoped for, and the creative interpenetration is also explosive (as long as people don't meet too much, everything is fine). »