More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.
