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“The Artwork as Misunderstanding
There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along.
As if there was something to take off.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along.
As if there was something to take off.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
“Making plans. - To make plans and project designs brings with it many good sensations; and whoever had the strength to be nothing but a forger of plans his whole life long would be a very happy man: but he would occasionally have to make a rest from this activity by carrying out a plan - and then comes the vexation and the sobering up.”
― A Nietzsche Reader
― A Nietzsche Reader
“Words and images drink the same wine.
There is no purity to protect.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
There is no purity to protect.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
“(133) Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods [...]: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.”
― A Nietzsche Reader
― A Nietzsche Reader
“That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations
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