It must be great to be an artist. You get to puncture pretentious ideas about art and literature and no one has any come back because you’re the one doing the art, not just talking about it. Here is Beksiński in conversation with Henryk Brzozowski:

Zna Pan na pewno te wszystkie komunały, które od lat wypisuje się o muzyce Beethovena. Że w Piątej i Appassionacie słychać pukanie losu do drzwi… Jeżeli puka, to chyba jest to los antropomorficzny: nosi marynarkę, prawą reką puka, a w lewej trzyma kapelusz, który zdjął, by mu nie przeszkadzał przy sluchaniu muzyki i pukaniu w odpowiednich momentach i do taktu.
I’m sure you know all those cliches people have been writing about Beethoven for years. That in the Fifth and the Appassionata you can hear the knocking of fate on the door… If it’s knocking, it must be an anthropomorphic fate: it’s wearing a jacket, knocking with the right hand while holding in the left hand its hat, which it took off so it wouldn’t disturb him while he was listening to the music and knocking at the right moments and in time.

Some of Beksi?ski’s art: here.
(Later:)
It turns out I can put pictures on this page after all… This is Beksi?ski: