“The wonderful thing about language is it promotes its own oblivion…My eyes follow the line on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them. The paper, the letters on it, my eye and the body are there only as the minimum setting of some invisible operation. Expression fades before what is expressed and this is why its mediating role may pass unnoticed.”
Merleau-Ponty, quoted in Written on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art
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