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Gilles Deleuze Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“ It is well known that rhythm is not meter or cadence, even irregular meter or cadence: there is nothing less rhythmic than a military march.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos, rhythm
“From virtuals we descend to actual states of affairs, and from states of affairs we ascend to virtuals, without being able to isolate one from the other.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Theory and Practice, The (Virtual) Reality of Strategy, Abstraction, Concrete Life vs. Abstraction
“These visions, these auditions, this process of driving words from one end of the universe to the other, it is delirium.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical
Tagged: Delirium, Words Fail, Writing
“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: great opening
“We can at least see what philosophy is not: it is not contemplation, reflection, or communication. ”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Tagged: Philosophy
“Art begins not with flesh but with the house. That is why architecture is the first of the arts.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Artistic Food Chain, Architecture, All Art Aspires To Architecture
“The lines of flight coil and start to swirl in black holes, like a snail. Down instead of high. Instead of making a body without organs sufficiently rich for the passage of intensities the creative line turns into a line of abolition. ”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Portrait of an Addict
“Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateuas
Tagged: Philosophy, Repetition, autopoiesis, refrain
“One ventures from home on the thread of a tune. Along sonorous, gestural, motor lines that mark the customary path of a child and graft themselves onto or begin to bud "linesof drift" with different loops, knots, speeds, movements, gestures, and sonorities.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Multiplicity, Music, refrain, Repetition
“The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of Insecurity.”
— Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: Capitalism, Micropolitics of Insecurity, Conglomeration
“It’s a strange business, speaking for yourself, in your own name, because it doesn’t at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the multiplicities everywhere within them, to the intensities running through them.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity
Tagged: speaking for yourself, self, Self Absorbed, Self Boundaries, Self Care
“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But then the crowd of imitators come and repair the umbrella with something vaguely resembling the vision, and the crowd of commentators who patch over the tear with opinions. Thus other artists are always needed to make other slits, to carry out necessary and perhaps ever-greater destructions, thereby restoring to their predecessors the incommunicable novelty that we could no longer see.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Art, Aesthetics, Making Chaos, Reframing, Creative Destruction, What Poetry Does, Poetry, Engendering Novelty, Make It New
“From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. This is the concern of very ancient cosmogonies. Chaos is not without its own directional compo-nents, which are its own ecstasies. We have seen elsewhere how all kinds of milieus, each defined by a component, slide in relation to one another, over one another. Every milieu is vibratory, in other words, a block of space-time constituted by the periodic repetition of the component.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos, refrain, Repetition
“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, composes the percepts of that life, of that moment, shattering lived perceptions into a sort of cubism, a sort of simultaneism, of harsh or crepuscular light, of purple or blue.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Artist, Becoming, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism, Second Vision
“The fold: the Baroque invents the infinite work or process. The problem is not how to finish a fold, but how to continue it, to have it go through the ceiling, how to bring it to infinity. It is not only because the fold affects all materials that it thus becomes expensive matter, with different scales, speeds, and different vectors (mountains and waters, papers, fabrics, living issues, the brain), but especially becuase it determines and materializes Form. It produces a form of expression, a Gestating, the genetic element or infinite line of inflection, the curve with a unique variable.”
— Gilles Deleuze, The Fold
Tagged: Baroque, Folding, Folds
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