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The
world is filled to suffocating
...
Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.
We know that a picture
is but a space
in which a variety of images [and other signifiers],
none of them original, blend and
clash.
A picture is a tissue of quotations
drawn from the innumerable
centers of culture ...
We can only imitate a gesture
that is always anterior ...
The viewer is the tablet
on which all the quotations
that make up a painting are inscribed ...
A painting's meaning lies not in its origin,
but in its destination.
Sherrie Levine |
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