“L’art de bien dire ce qu’on pense est différent de la faculté de penser : celle-ci peut être très-grande en profondeur, en hauteur, en étendue, et l’autre ne pas exister. Le talent de bien exprimer n’est pas celui de concevoir.”
Tome 2, Du style
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It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on whithout any eyes. The spectator cannot exist whithout it. It insures his existence.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969

I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it.
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