Stendhal Syndrome
Reincarnate and only entropy springs eternal: everything I have created over the infinite span of all consciousness – every exertion of will against the elements, every etching into the inanimate face of eternity, every stroke of every paintbrush that a hand ever held…
Last July, “a 32-year-old woman wearing lipstick kissed a painting by American artist Cy Twombly on display in Avignon, leaving left a large red smudge. At the Orsay Museum in Paris a year earlier, a man ripped a hole in a painting by impressionist Claude Monet. The last attack on a work of art at the Louvre was in 1998, when a mathematics professor attacked a statue of Roman philosopher Seneca with a hammer.”
- Can Art Drive Us Crazy? by Anneli Rufus
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