More Quotes by Louis Aragon
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
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.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
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.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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.
