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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“We have lost touch with chaos because it is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, the ego. The ego’s existence is defined in terms of control. The endless modeling process that the ego carries out is an effort to fight the absence of closure. The ego wants closure. It wants a complete explanation.”
— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
Tagged: Chaos, Control, Ego, Ego is the Enemy
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“On golden summer’s forests green 
And what a gush of song is given 
To welcome in that light serene 
A fresh wind waves the clustering roses 
And through the open window sighs”
— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems
Tagged: Serene Light, Light
“Gardening is an opening of worlds-of worlds within worlds-beginning beginning with the world at one's feet. To become conscious of what one is treading on requires that one delve into the ground's organic underworld, so as to appreciate, in an engaged way, the soil's potential for fostering life.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Tagged: Gardens, Gardening, Nature, Soil
“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
“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
“This is, precisely, the task of all art and, from colors and sounds, both music and painting similarly extract new harmonies, new plastic or melodic landscapes, and new rhythmic characters that raise them to the height of the earth’s song and the cry of humanity: that which constitutes tone, health, becoming, a visual and sonorous bloc.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Task of Art, Paint the World
“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
“It is always a question of freeing life wherever it is imprisoned, or of tempting it into an uncertain combat.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Liberation, Eating the Locks
“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