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painting

Michelangelo

trivia

vulgarity

Henri Matisse

Playboy magazine

John Lennon

ejaculation

Andy Warhol

nude

realism

cartoon

tunnel

Road Runner

social media

still life

Instagram

childbirth

Renaissance

infant

busyness

dread

existentialism

makeup

Justin Bieber

is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

is a commitment to the possibility of moving beyond the human seriously, and reversing the order of perception in order to seize the non-human virtual that eludes actualization.

Here I introduce the notion of 'thinking in painting' and argue that, while in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of art painting is a pedagogical investigation of the pre-human, chaotic and invisible 'depth' of a lived visible world, Deleuze takes Bergson's commitment to the possibility of moving beyond the human seriously and reverses the order of perception in order to seize the non-human virtual that eludes actualization. For Deleuze, the task of painting is therefore not to reveal the ontogenesis of the actual and the lived, but to extract the virtual and to embody it as a monument to that event.

is a form of art whose substance is light.

is a history book and sermon which can be read without the trouble of turning the pages.

Paintings are book histories and sermons, which can be read without the trouble of turning the pages. (Van Waldron)

is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

is a mosaic of colors that is weaved into a seamless whole.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole. (Igor Babailov)

is a pedagogical investigation of the pre-human, chaotic and invisible 'depth' of a lived visible world.

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