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Antonin Artand quoted in Balthus - Remuald p 28

"Balthus paints, primarily, light and form. By the light of a wall, a polished floor, a chair, or an epidermis he invites us to enter into the mystery of a human body. That body as a sex, and that sex makes itself clear to us, with all the asperities that go with it. The nude I have in mind has about it something harsh, something tough, something unyielding, and - there is no gainsaying the fact - something cruel. It is an invitation to lovemaking, but one that does not dissimulate the dangers involved."

asperity (F. or L. rough) 1. Roughness 2. Harshness rigor, inclemency; sharpness of temper

3-1-84

If you wish to connect things, all you have to do is join the two balconies of an insane asylum with a shaky plank

Carlos Fuentes

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Have confidence in the transformations and inventions of chance.

Kertész

3-12-84

Daumier and His World - Howard Vincent - 1968

"There are those who don't like the Juste-Milieu, me, I like the Juste-Milieu. I like it as I like Odry, as I like Arnal (two well known clowns), as I like everything which amuses me. I like it as a monstrosity; I like it as a two-headed child, as a five-footed sheep, as a female Cyclops, a flam-covered rat, an acrobatic monkey, a learned canary, the fossil whale, the Siames elephant, and the giant flee." Philipon

p 23

Balzac's Vautrin: "There is no such thing as principle, emergency is everything; there are no laws, but only circumstances and emergencies in order to direct them. If principles and fixed laws existed. Nations would not change them as easily as we change our shirt. A man cannot