D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian­ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy