Although this view has heuristic value, remember that there are two sides to a sheet of paper.
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.
Although this view has heuristic value, remember that there are two sides to a sheet of paper.
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.
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.
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.
Salvador Dali
An artist man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.