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Here are some out of context quotations from a talk I gave the other day about my art practice:

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One affirms something but denies it, because to affirm it too strongly would be heretical and to deny it completely would also be heretical.
– Bruce Ellis Benson

Negation and affirmation bear upon the same attributes, only envisaged from two points of view. Instead of neutralizing one another, they reinforce one another with a properly unthinkable tension.
– Jean-Luc Marion

God is therefore known in all things and as distinct from all things. He is known through knowledge and through unknowing. Of him there is conception, reason,understanding, touch, perception, opinion, imagination, name, and many other things. On the other hand he cannot be understood, words cannot contain him, and no name can lay hold of him. He is not one of the things that are and he cannot be known in any of them. He is all things in all things and he is no thing among things. He is known to all from all things and he is known to no one from anything. This is the sort of language we must use about God.
– Pseudo-Dionysius

We should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regards to beings, and more appropriately, we should negate all those affirmations, since it surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all [God] is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion.
– Pseudo-Dionysius

Any real explanation of even the simplest phenomenon in nature lies hidden in obscurity and can no more be explained than can the mystery of the Godhead.
– A.W. Tozer

To fail does not mean to represent successfully existential failures or existential meaningless; it means to fail to represent (either meaninglessness or meaning).
– Leo Bersani & Ulysse Dutoit on Samuel Beckett

Photography is not a substitute for anything.
– Hollis Frampton

Language is not a substitute for anything.
– Liz Kotz

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