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- {Spit the word "museums". Really go intense on the rest.} Museums! I'm talking about art. Art! The jubilant ecstasy of the soul made material! You cannot contain that in a museum!
- Perhaps. If all we are is a sentience floating in a suit of flesh, or metal I suppose, then art is the only true communion with the world.
- {snide, you detest the idea of "cute" art, but it has made you a TON of money} Yes, it certainly is cute isn't it.
- Like Prometheus's torch, it kindles within me the fire to create as much art as I can, with the time I have.
- My work is primarily in oil paint, but I have been known to do sculpture or performance art as well.
- He's dead. Your questions won't bring him back. We must look forward!
- What does that tell you about the value of art to the common man, hm?
- Good. I hope my paintings are able to open your mind to new possibilities.
- Oh, I'm sure you'll invent something. I look forward to seeing what fanciful idea you have next, Detective.
- {air quotes around serious} This series has made me more money than any of my serious works, and I did the whole thing as a lark!
- Oh, it's you again. Finally decided to get some culture?
- No, actually. Ezra borrowed my last can and now I can't find it.
- Do you not see it? The glory of the thing? The artistry?
- I don't know, I was painting at the time and was trying to block it out. Though I bet Gilda probably heard them. Maybe you should check with her.
- Come with me.
- No, Detective. I don't need to go throwing around empty accusations like you do.
- {Overly dramatic as if you are talking about ascending your mind, but you are actually saying you need to go up stairs in the gallery.} We must ascend!
- Got it in one.
- Hello again, Detective.
- How absolutely inspiring!
- I can see this discourse is wasted on you.
- I may have to do a whole series on this.
- What a very literal interpretation. I asked what it communicated, not what the shapes on the canvas were.
- Is it done? Can I get back to my painting?
- And what about this one? And be honest, for art without honesty is just politics.
- Ah, my fellow connoisseur of the art. Here to see my latest work?
- More than you would imagine!
- You're missing the point. The search for Truth is far more important than the search for simple Facts.
- Pah! Dogs and elephants can put paint to canvas.
- Something sounded exciting, Detective.
- Tell me, what does this one say to you?
- Tell me. What does this piece say to you?
- This way!
- Indeed. This was the last piece I did in a series of portraits of Gilda. Number 1378.
- Well, that was certainly something.
- What else did you need?
- I suppose in a way it must be. Art shapes the world, and the world shapes art in return.
- So what if I am? What business is it of yours? She deserves someone who truly understands her ephemeral beauty, not that brute actor.
- Intriguing, the mind will superimpose meaning where none was intended. I hadn't considered it.
- Perhaps that is entirely the point. Like life, there is no subject, no reason. Just random stimulae that our minds try to spin into a cohesive story.
- Another of the unwashed masses. The standards of this hotel are clearly nonexistent at this point.
- Hello Detective. Here to broaden your mind through artistic inspiration?
- Indeed. Perhaps you should rethink your accusations.
- You should be looking at Julianna Riggs, Detective. That woman was a nightmare and very few people become more calm around a murder.
- Her emotional landscape is superimposed on the portrait, the reality of the subject is distorted as the ego attempts to project itself.
- A killer on the loose. Perhaps that is what I should name this piece.
- I haven't felt this inspired since that time security spent all day chasing a molerat through the halls!
- She and Ezra had a rather dramatic fight recently. You could hear her banshee screeches all the way across the hotel.
- All art must therefore be constantly reborn through the lense of contextual and historic interpretation.
- {wistful, stars in your eyes} Our Gilda is a very singular creature, Detective. Do you not see the joie de vivre within her?
- Intriguing. What a Post-Cynical Futurist interpretation. All meaning is contained in the struggle for life to continue.
- It's for inspiration, Detective! The others don't like to think about it, but even we shall die some day.
- Just like my critics. Always willing to paint passion as madness!
- Ah, the spartan pragmatist. But if one can only manage to achieve physiological sustenance, is that not a greater waste of time on this earth?
- Bah! Medium without message, what use would that be to me?
- Oh? And what motive would I have to kill our dear Ezra?
- I see you've made up your mind. I'm not going down without a fight!
- Truth be told, this is my best selling piece. I did the series under a pseudonym of course.
- Ezra, you've outdone yourself. Oh, this is your finest work! There is more emotion in his death than most have in their entire lives!
- {Dismissive.} There will be plenty of time for that. We have more important matters to attend to.
- Well that's certainly a projected interpretation. Ah well.
- I have never met another who clings to life so tenaciously, who lives so in the moment. I must admit, I was quite smitten with her for a time.
- Well. Well, well, well, well. If it isn't the long arm of the law.
- Tell me, are you a devotee of the arts? Does that cruel muse call you to her entrapping bosom?
- The person you should be looking at is Julianna Riggs. That philistine wouldn't know Art from her own excrement.
- What's to say our every action isn't a spastic death twitch of a creature that hasn't realized it's already dead?
- Isn't that an apt description of all life? Killers on the loose.
- Over two hundred years of life and then poof! Gone! The tragedy! The hilarity!
- What is there to tell? I am one of the premier artists in the world.
- I'm just saying that at least he had the decency to make a spectacle of it. There's nothing worse than a boring death.
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