SIMONE WEIL

"Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it."

- Simone Weil


Source: Simone Weil quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

FRIEDERICH NIETZCHE

"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphism: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical and binding. Tuths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions, they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins"

- Friederich Nietzsche


Source: Friedrich Nietzsche quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

GILLES DELEUZE

"Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think"

- Gilles Deleuze


Source: Gilles Deleuze quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

WILLIAM MORRIS

"You can't have art without resistance in the material."

- William Morris


Source: William Morris quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

WALTER BENJAMIN

"I need say nothing. Only Show. I won't filch anything of value or approximate any ingenious turns of phrase. Only the trivia, the trah - which I don't want to inventory, but simply allow it to come into its own in the ony way possible, by putting it to use."

- Walter Benjamin


Source: Walter Benjamin quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

PAUL KLEE

"This is due to particularly to the local limitations of the eye. The eye can not be in the whole field of the pictorial work at the same time, but rather always only in a part. It stands itself before a relatively small picture board, before the task has been posed, like a grazing animal. It must enter into movement because it can't see everything at once""

- Paul Klee


Source: Paul Klee quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

PAUL VALERY

"In order of the mental things, here seems to be certain mysterious relations between the desire and the event. That is because the mind when reduced to its own sole substance does not have the power to finish, and absolutely cannot bind itself by itself."

- Paul Valéry


Source: Paul Valéry quoted in Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157.