Jennifer Birkett

Quotes

• “Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transfor...”
• “The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and n...”
• “Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic p...”
• “Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain...”
• “The decadent artist markets other people's pain”