"We shouldn’t be too harsh on our fads. After all, the reason they become fads is that they’re fun. Still, a fad will always tell us something important about the times in which it occurs. “Paint-by-number,” wrote Brennen Jensen in a 2001 article, “is all about conformity. … Painting, ostensibly one of the most creative and individualistic endeavors, is rendered rote - a matter of manual dexterity, not inspiration."

Paul is dead, Nick Carr