Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Philosophy, Reflection

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.19, Psychology Press

• The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Philosophy, Medicine

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.174, Routledge

• [The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Wish, Body

  "The Visible and the Invisible". Book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, p. 135, 1968.

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