Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space. Gilles Deleuze More Quotes by Gilles Deleuze More Quotes From Gilles Deleuze The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying. Gilles Deleuze solitude silence people A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Gilles Deleuze freedom inspirational philosophy A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities. Gilles Deleuze impossibility creator possibility Bring something incomprehensible into the world! Gilles Deleuze individuality world Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. Gilles Deleuze delirium reason lying To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray. Gilles Deleuze voyages self order Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method. Gilles Deleuze intuition inspiration feelings Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency. Gilles Deleuze consistency poetry writing Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all. Gilles Deleuze creative philosophy art Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement. Gilles Deleuze produce differences movement The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? Gilles Deleuze fighting men philosophy There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. Gilles Deleuze weapons looks needs It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes. Gilles Deleuze things-change easy trying Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. Gilles Deleuze cartography writing country The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about. Gilles Deleuze dream order reality Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. Gilles Deleuze encounters fundamentals thinking A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. Gilles Deleuze tyrants stupidity firsts The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? Gilles Deleuze shame writing men The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. Gilles Deleuze philosopher You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. Gilles Deleuze devil walks lord
