"We do our crummy little shit, and the culture assigns value to it."
There's an awesome interview with art critic Dave Hickey at The Believer.
Highlights:
DH: Thirty-five thousand MFAs a semester, 90 percent of whom never make another work of art.
SH: And do you think that that kind of system produces—
DH: Almost no one. Idiots with low-grade depression.