(xxi) Susan Sontag - On Style

For, if one does not perceive how a work repeats itself, the work is, almost literally, not perceptible and therefore, at the same time, not intelligible. It is the perception of repetitions that makes a work of art intelligible. Until one has grasped, not the "content," but the principles of (and balance between) variety and redundancy in Merce Cunningham's "Winterbranch" or a chamber concerto by Charles Wuoronin or Burroughs' Naked Lunch or the "black" paintings of Ad Reinhardt, these works are bound to appear boring or ugly or confusing, or all three.