We Become With
Not a “minute of the world passes,” says Cezanne, that we will preserve if we do not “become the minute.” We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it.
Everything is vision, becoming.
We become universes. Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero.
What terror haunts Van Gogh’s head, caught in a becoming sunflower?
Ahab actually does have perceptions of the sea, but only because he has entered into relationship with Moby Dick that makes him a becoming whale and forms a compound of sensations that no longer needs anyone: ocean.
–excerpt from What Is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari p. 170
