Not How The World Is, Is The Mystical, But That It Is.

Jeanne Hébuterne, 1898-1920

Adam and Eve, 1919, oil on cardboard, 81.5×59.8 cm

Pinacothèque de Paris

Frank O'Hara

La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) | Jacques Rivette | 1991

“Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

    Cassavetes on Cassavetes.

Les Amoureux de Paris III, Photo by Edouard Boubat, 1962

Love Meetings (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Intellectuals are wonderfully cultivated, they have views on everything. I'm not an intellectual, because I can't supply views like that, I've got no stock of views to draw on. What I know, I know only from something I'm actually working on, and if I come back to something a few years later, I have to learn everything all over again. It's really good not having any view or idea about this or that point. We don't suffer these days from any lack of communication, but rather from all the forces making us say things when we've nothing much to say.

— Deleuze, On Philosophy, in Negotiations

Jane Birkin