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“I’m searching for...the right images. And I have no words for that. But I know right away when I’ve got it. If I say, it will be like this, it would limit it somehow. I like very much to be completely open, and allow things to happen.”
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“My existence does not come from my antecedents, nor from my physical and social surroundings; it moves out toward them and sustains them. For I am the one who brings into being for myself – and thus into being in the only sense that the word could have for me – this tradition that I choose to take up or this horizon whose distance from me would collapse were I not there to sustain it with my gaze (since this distance does not belong to the horizon as one of its properties).”
― Phenomenology of Perception
― Phenomenology of Perception
“The mind is but a visitor: it thinks us out of our world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense its limits, for we have made them.”
― The Book of Hours
― The Book of Hours
“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. The verdict on it lies in this nature of its origin: there is no other.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“If the plants have minds, as some people assume they do, they must be of that brooding, vegetative sort characteristic of those mystics who, quite forgetful of the active world, are absorbed in the contemplation of their own inner processes.”
― The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment
― The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment
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