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Malcolm de Chazal Quotes

1902–1981

Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées.

Random Malcolm de Chazal quote

9 quotes

The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.

A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.

I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.

Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.

We see a friend’s eye as one and indivisible. A stranger’s eye we take in part by part: the white, the iris, and the pupil.

The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.

No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Malcolm de Chazal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.