As technologically advanced and wealthy America is, it will never produce a city as magnificent as Paris. It is unlikely a single building will be constructed that comes close to matching the grandiosity and aesthetic value of the average, old-world Parisian monument.
What's more, the French created most of this incredible city with its marvelous architecture, centuries ago.
Goes to show that without artists and visionaries, money can't buy greatness. In America, we disregard the artists and those with the most vision. How amazing it must have been for French artists to be celebrated at one time, while today in America, the artist is treated the lowest; looked at as a bum or a slacker; the treatment America has adopted towards artists and creativity, is quickly killing artistic pursuits, dreams, and progress.
The bullshit artists like Kincaid get rich having others paint their crap art for them. The public pays out the ass for such fake art, but then lets that fake art set their perception of art, and its greatness, in general.
People see a rich gimmick artist, and figure - this person is one of the most successful artist, and they internalize that art of the successful artist, as the marker signifying the nature and the importance of art.
I'm going to paint the shit out of canvas until the damn things start to move and talk, and work miracles. I'm going to paint the brain and paint trains of thought. I'm going to paint you an envisioning.
All this, because the only way our country is going to give due resources and respect to the artist, and the only way the artist is to save himself from drowning in all the football-loving, is to shock the fuck out of the people - prove that man still can make giant leaps forward, and that those with vision are the key to do so.
