“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
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