A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
Marcel ProustHowever, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.
Marcel ProustTo be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
Marcel Proust