...it's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of "takes." This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression that never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment.

— Leon Wieseltier

No I contradict myself. Picasso he does too. He says pull out your brain, yes, he also says, 'Painting is a blind man's profession' and 'To draw you must close your eyes and sing.' And Michelangelo, he says he sculpts with his brains, not his eyes. Yes. Everything IA true at once. Life is contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works. Okay, now pick up the charcoal and draw.

— Jandy Nelson