The life of images is not a private or individual matter. It is a social life. Images live in genealogical or genetic series, reproducing themselves over time, migrating from one culture to another (p. 93). A pencil is only a paper's way of making another drawing.
Artworks were selected for nice surface, not critics resistance, and as such should not advertise defences they have not retained.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments. Biology is not destiny because the environment affects the form any genetic disorder takes. Artists living in a harsh environment are better learners than their counterparts in more comfortable climates.
A shown bythe ideas which have put the orange cats among the pigeons in modern science.
An artist ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
To ask, what do pictures want ? is not just to attribute to them life and power and desire, but also to to raise the question of what it is they lack. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.