'The old concept of art, derived from experience, is obsolete ... Those who show the dark associations,
the anonymous feelings that reality produces, do not depict reality itself. You shall no longer recognise the fruits by their taste.'
—Bertolt Brecht, 'The Threepenny Lawsuit'

'Myths are the very souls of our actions and our loves. We only act in pursuit of a phantom. We can only love what we create.' —Paul Valéry, 'Études philosophiques'