All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.