Visual Art sat there waiting for Mr. Death to visit

(going to the timewaster page).

And the noble, seminal switch is a stuttering candle.

Clive Gamble, Science 6 February 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5915, pp. 709 - 711

An advantage of bad art: your relatives gain nothing by your death.

Theodor Adorno, "Art works reduced to memento mori in museums".

Is this the way the art world ends? Why ideas that spawn other artworks are called seminal if they are made from nothing ?

Josef Albers, the Apocalypse hypothesis