Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.


Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (ed. Semiotext, 2001)

William S. Burroughs Quotes

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do ...

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do ...

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do ...

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do ...