How are we to avioid the following play of mirrors: a proposition must be true because its expressible is true, while the expressible is true only when the proposition itself is true? All these difficulties stem from a common source: in extracting the double from the proposition we have evoked a simple phantom. Sense so defined is only a vapor which plays at the limit of things and words. Sense appears here as the outcome of the most powerful logical effort, but as Ineffectual, a sterile incorporeal deprived of its generative power. Lewis Carroll gave a marvelous account of all of these paradoxes: that of the neutralizing doubling appears in the form of the smile without a cat, while that of the proliferating redoubling appears in the form of the knight who always gives a new name to the name of the song - and between these two extremes lies all the secondary paradoxes which form Alice’s adventures.
- Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition
A schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst’s couch.
- Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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 Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 104 (via bidzovka)
The painter does not paint on an empty canvas, and neither does the writer write on a blank page; but the page or canvas is already so covered with preexisting, preestablished clichés that it is necessary to erase, to clean, to flatten, even to shred, so as to let in a breath of air from the chaos that brings us the vision.
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (via totrulyexist)
Je ne crois pas que tu sois ‘deleuzien,’ mais, en revanche, que nous sommes amis, donc dans cet état d’entente préalable, ou, encore mieux, dans cette hospitalité.
- Gilles Deleuze
