Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Practising cruelty

"Emotion that is not tied to the opening of a horizon but to some nearby object, emotion within the limits of reason only offers us a compressed life. Burdened by our lost truth, the cry of emotion rises out of disorder, such as it might be imagined by the child contrasting the window of his bedroom to the depths of the night."

Georges Bataille - The Cruel Practice of Art