The Frame Is The Reward

A Picture Is An Artificial Work, Outside Nature. It Calls For As Much Cunning As The Commission Of A Crime.

Art Is Vice. You Don't Marry It Legitimately, You Rape It.

Art Is Vice. One Does Not Wed It, One Rapes It.

Muses Work All Day Long And Then At Night Get Together And Dance.

One Reproduces Only That Which Is Striking; That Is To Say, The Necessary. Thus, One's Recollections And Inventions Are Liberated From The Tyranny Which Nature Exerts.