“We have to see creation as the tracing of a path between impossibilities ... Kafka explained how it was impossible for a Jewish writer to speak German, impossible for him to speak Czech and impossible for him not to speak. Perrault comes upon the same problem: the impossibility of not speaking, of speaking English, of speaking French. Creation takes places in strangled channels. Even in some particular language, even in French, for example, a new syntax is a foreign language within the language. A creation who isn’t seized by the throat by a set of impossibilities is no creator. A creator is someone who creates his own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities. It’s by banging your head against the wall that you find an answer. You have to work on the wall, because without a set of impossibilities, you won’t have the line of flight, the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth. You have to be liquid or gaseous, precisely because normal perception and opinion are solid, geometric. It’s what Bergson did in philosophy, Virginia Woolf or Henry James with the novel, Jean Renoir in cinema (and experimental cinema, which has gone a long way exploring the states of matter). Not leaving Earth, at all - but becoming all the more earthly by inventing laws of liquids and gases on which the Earth depends.”
Gilles Deleuze, L’autre Journal 8 (October 1985)
