from the encyclopædia acephalica

WORK. — ‘I have no idea what the meaning of work is in our epoch, but I believe virtuosity is an infirmity, knowledge a dangerous asset, and I am well content to have some genius and no talent, which allows me not to work, and to play like a child: Work is an ostentatious thing, ugly and bogus as Justice.’ — K. Van Dongen”

(entry in the Encyclopædia Acephalica by Georges Bataille etc., p. 84 in the translation by Iain White.)

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