“Broer did not want to be an accountant. Later, when he was writing art
criticism, people blamed him for using the words “indescribably” and
“pricelss” so often. “Those two words may be bad style,” he would
defend himself, “but they are good aesthetics. I used to have a father
who was haggling perpetually. I hated his ceaseless thrift. The same
hatred I now feel for the smooth operators who have words for
everything. As a boy, I used to long for things that cannot be
converted into whatever you like, that cannot be melted into air by
money or words, things that are inviolable, insoluble, and now I have
found them, in the world of art. To me ‘beautiful’ is synonymous with
‘genuine.’ And if I nowadays come across something that is nothing
other than itself, that is real, I honor it by saying ‘indescribable’
or ‘priceless’; thus, so to speak, I keep my mouth shut.”

Frans Kellendonk, Mystiek Lichaam