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"But Calcutta this crumbling, scabby, swarming city, this city that eats its own excrement, has decided to be cheerful. It wants its misery - and misery can be photographed wherever you go - to be terrifyingly beautiful; the decay plastered with advertising posters, the cracked pavement, the beads of sweat adding up to nine million souls. People pour out of railway stations... have daily diarrhea: white-shirted maggots in a shitpile with Victorian Excrescencies, a shitpile that dreams up cirlicues every minute. And on top of everything betel reddened spittle."

"Why not a poem about a pile of shit that God dropped and named Calcutta. How it swarms, stinks, lives and gets bigger and bigger"

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Gunter Grass - "The Flounder" Nov. 9.79

Une oeuvre d'art est un coin de la création vu à travers un tempérament.

Zola

Painting deals with human action, and above all with the most noble and serious human actions. It must present these according to the principles of reason; that is to say, it must show them in a logical and orderly manner, as nature would produce them if she were perfect. The artist must seek the typical and the general. Painting should appeal to the mind and not to the eye; hence it must not bother with trivialities, such as glowing color, which is only a sensuous attraction, but must use color and light only as means of expressing the action of the picture

on Poussin p. 193 Anthony Blunt - Art and Architecture in France