E. Gorey’s Great Simple Theory About Art

I ran across this quote by artist Edward Gorey recently on The Atlantic, and it rang true for me:

“This is the theory … that anything that is art … is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” – Edward Gorey, 1968