– Jake and Dinos Chapman, “The Rape of Creativity”.
‘Among the magnitude of things that are around us, the being of nothingness holds the highest position and its grasp extends to things that have no being, and its essence sides within time, within the past and the future’.
– Leonardo da Vinci (Cod. Arundel, f. 131r), in Agamben (2006 [1982]: 82), my emphasis.