"...the splitting itself I do not apologize for. It is a tactic-a necessity-born from the horrors of the times. And better by far a splitting-an admission of the 'political' and the 'aesthetic' as at present the torn halves of a totality...than the alternative currently on offer in so much of the left academy. Which is to say, a constant cursory hauling of visual (and verbal) images before the court of political judgment"
"I was a writer about painting, and therefore inevitably looking for an incident, an interruption in the visual fabric, on which words could fasten and begin."
"I approve of luminous concreteness. Something in me flinches from the glamor of always probing deeper as looker...One part of me goes to paintings precisely for their self sufficiency, their removal from the world of wishes. "
"astonishing things happen if one gives oneself over to the process of seeing again and again...and slowly the question arises: What is it, fundamentally, I am returning to in this particular case? What is it I want to see again?"
"Can it be that there are certain kinds of visual configuration, or incident, or play of analogy, that simply cannot be retained in the memory, or fully integrated into a disposable narrative of interpretation; so that only the physical, literal, dumb act of receiving the array on the retina will satisfy the mind?"
"Don't we go back to it because we sense that in it is re-enacted a death or terror we would all like to experience again in this harmless, ordered, palliative mode?"
"I want the whole record of reptition-compulsion"
"one kind of corrective to dogma is looking itself, pursued long enough."
"Aren't there plenty of moments in life that, whether they last or not, have enough permanence about them to stand for things as they are, things as the mind conceives them-and not just to stand for them notionally?"
"How does a momentary stopping of an action, or state of the weather-come to speak to structure or persistence? What features of the momentary can be frozen without forcing?"
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