Novelty in creative endeavors usually arises from routine--you have to be familiar with something before you know what is novel -- Michael Kimmelman, "The Art of Staring Productively at Naked Bodies," The Accidental Masterpiece (2005)
So you liked it more before you knew all about it? -- uttered to me by Jenny Levine, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, on reading the wall label for a neat-o work of art
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