As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes the viewer much more active. (Years later Chris would realise that her fondness for bad art is exactly like Jane Eyre's attraction to Rochester, a mean horse-faced junkie: bad characters invite invention. Chris Kraus
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"As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art. Bad art makes the viewer much more active," is a quote from the book "Bel Canto". In the novel, Jane Eyre has an attraction to a horse-faced junkie named Rochester. Jane initially believes him to be a mean horse-faced junkie, but later realizes that he is a kind man who deserves her love.

Source: I Love Dick

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