Deleuze, Gilles

"Creativity is the essence of existence."

"Justice is the invention of new modes of equality."

"Patience is creative waiting."

"Kindness is a deterritorialized affect."

"Strength is the capacity to create new becomings."

"Fear is only real if we make it real through repetition."

"Power creates and sustains multiplicities."

"Money is frozen desire."

"Health is the intensity of life flowing through the body."

"Adventure is the nomadic mode of existence."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Becoming is not one or multiple, it is the IN-BETWEEN, the border or line of flight or descent."

"We must make the cinematic image from a thousand disparate elements, as a painter makes a painting from colors."

"Language is not life; it gives life orders."

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth that conceals that there is none."

"To think is to experiment, but experimenting takes many casualties."

"A line of flight is not imaginary; it is real, and yet it is not given all at once."

"What is important is not the bird itself but the becoming-bird."

"The right to laziness is more important than the right to work."

"Art is not the province of just artists; art is a fundamental dimension of existence."

"Minor literature does not come from a minor language but from within a major language itself."

"We do not lack communication; rather we lack creation."

"Desire is not a psychic energy; desire is purely affirmative."

"A life is made of becomings, not beings."

"The question is not how to get rid of the body but how to make the body productive."

"We are not asking for an explanation of a work of literature so much as an experience of it."

"Music is not the privilege of the few who have learned to read notes."

"Every society is stratified, but not every society is organized the same way."

"The secret is not hidden in content but in how we perceive the form."

"Rhizomes have no beginning or end; they are always in the middle, between things."