In this book, reviewer Christopher Masters states, Dorazio advanced his belief, perhaps with surfeit of optimism, that «abstract art could change the world... that just as science and technology were destroying the barriers between different cultures, so the new «universal style» would lead to a «universal civilisation».» (wikiart.org)
Nathan Kernan wrote in 2004, «Miller's paintings teem with as much activity and information as it seems they can bear, deliberately flirting with surfeit. (mrsgallery.com)
As will one day be elaborated in a dissertation, Machiavelli's eponymous Prince lived — and killed — by surfeit of this virtu; Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet killed and died out of deficit. (firstthings.com)