“Art only begins where Imitation ends.”
“Where does contagion end and art begin?”
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”
“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”
“...Art strives after her by imitation,as the disciple imitates the master;Art, as it were, is the Grandchild of Creation.”
“There are places that we are welcomed," said Triolet, "and places where we are regarded as a noxious weed, or as a disease, something immediately to be quarantined and eliminated. But where does contagion end and art begin?”