Gilles Deleuze on creation
Gilles Deleuze58 quotes“A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.”
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze
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