"...painting celebrates no other enigma but that of visibility."
"Painting awakens and carries to its highest pitch a delirium which is vision itself."
"It makes no difference if he does not paint from 'nature'; he paints, in any case, because he has seen, because the world has at least once emblazoned in him the cipher of the visible."
"Essence and existence, imaginary and real, visible and invisible—painting scrambles all our categories, spreading out before us its oneiric universe of carnal essences, actualized resemblances, mute meanings."
Essay:
Eye and Mind
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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