Maurice Merleau-Ponty Art Quotations

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

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

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

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.