“By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience.”

— Samuel Beckett , book Three Dialogues

Also quoted in "Beckett and Failure", in Realism, Issue 5 (June 2011) http://www.hypocritereader.com/5/beckett-and-failure
Three Dialogues (1949)
Context: By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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