Collector by Necessity
Description
"The artist is by necessity a collector; he accumulates things with the same ardor and curiosity [with which] a boy stuffs his pockets. He borrows from the sea and from the scrap heap; he takes snapshots, makes mental notes, and records impressions on tablecloths and newspapers—why one particular thing and not another, he may not know at the time, but he is omnivorous. He has a taste for children's wall scrawling as appreciative as that for prehistoric cave painting."—Paul RandLinks
"When I think of my mad anxiety, of the need I have to be worried, to be in this world a man breathing uneasily, on his guard, as if he were going to be short of everything, I imagine the horror of my peasant ancestors, eager to tremble with hunger and cold, in the rarefied air of the nights."
George Bataille, The Impossible
