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“Love- any love- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“Man is a creature who is designed to live on the surface; he lives in the depths- whether terrestrial, oceanic, or psychological- at his peril.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“Consciousness seeks its meaning in unconsciousness.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“The Happenings thereby register (in a real, not simply an ideological way) a protest against the museum conception of art––the idea that the job of the artist is to make things to be preserved and cherished. One cannot hold on to a Happening, and one can only cherish it as one cherishes a firecracker going off dangerously close to one's face.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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