“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”

— Gary Snyder

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American poet 1930

Paul Virilio (1932–2018) French philosopher

Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89

“I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature.”

Jorge Luis Borges book A Universal History of Infamy

A Universal History of Iniquity, preface to the 1954 edition; tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Context: I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. [... ] The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”

Evelyn Waugh book Put Out More Flags

Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1 : Autumn, § 7

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30