Quotes by : Jennifer Birkett

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful,....

Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate....

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable....

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone....

The decadent artist markets other people's pain

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent....

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens....

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring....