By Georges Bataille
“From incoherent barkings of wish, guy can strengthen to particular speech now that, labelling the item with a reputation, he's capable of make an implicit connection among the fabric it truly is made from and the paintings required to get it from the previous nation to the hot during which it truly is prepared to be used. Thenceforth language firmly anchors the item within the movement of time.”
― Georges Bataille, Prehistoric portray: Lascaux or the beginning of artwork
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