On Art and Freedom
For moderns, art is the appearance of suffering from the unrealized potential of freedom, i.e., the appearance of freedom’s task.
Disjecta Membra: Mad Love by André Breton
As the artist, reaching deep into nothing, with nothing, and only for the sake of desire, creates something great, far beyond the imagined object of desire, fulfilling and exceeding every wish in a way which could never have been fully anticipated, so too does the lover encounter the beloved.