Many people have worries about contemporary art, and the Venice Biennale can make those worries rear up at you. But “you don’t have to like it all in order to embrace it. You’re allowed to make distinctions and your distinctions are as likely to be right as anyone else’s. Only a certain percentage of what is in fashion now will stand the test of time. In this way, contemporary art is not so very different from the art of the past.”