Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Klossowski

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Pierre Klossowski.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Pierre Klossowski

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act. — © Pierre Klossowski
The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his ‘truths’, as the sun does its light. - Isn’t it rather a pity that the void has no ears?
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