about climate change, it wouldn’t save one tree. Anyway, art—great art seems to me a thing of the past.” “That’s ridiculous. There are more professional artists working now than ever before.” “To be sure. But a certain kind of artistic genius doesn’t seem to occur anymore. We’re in the age of great tech, where genius abounds, but the last creative artist on a level with, say, Mozart or Shakespeare was George Balanchine, who was born in 1904. In any case, I certainly don’t believe in the salvific power of art as I once did. I mean, who could? Considering what we’ve come to.”
