You Complete the Masterpiece Quotes

“When had art become something to enhance an experience, rather than the point of the whole experience? When had art become an accessory on the way towards a rich lifestyle, instead of being the goal itself?”
― Guy Mankowski, You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel

“All I could hear in these stories about shitty people treating each other in shitty ways was an empty nihilism. Tear it down by all means, but then surely you had to build it back up? So many stories were Irvine Welsh rip-offs. He might've told us we could 'Choose Life'- and that meant consumerism, the other option being drugs. But beyond that binary there had to be something more- people wanting to heal, wanting to create something positive?”
― Guy Mankowski, You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel