The Frame

"The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting literally; for other arts, figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

"You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

"If John Cage, for instance, says, "I'm putting a contact microphone on my throat, and I'm going to drink carrot juice, and that's my composition," then his gurgling qualifies as his composition because he put a frame around it and said so. "Take it or leave it, I now will this to be music." After that it's a matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it's a guy swallowing carrot juice." --Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, copyright 1989.

Matter of taste, right Frank. I think it sucks.