What expert judgment, in art, could ever bear on the work to come?
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If it is so disgusting to judge, it is not because everything is of equal value, but on the contrary because what has value can be made or distinguished only by defying judgment. What expert judgment, in art, could ever bear on the work to come? It is not a question of judging other existing beings, but of sensing whether they agree or disagree with us, that is, whether they bring forces to us, or whether they return us to the miseries of war, to the poverty of the dream, to the rigors of organization. As Spinoza had said, it is a problem of love and hate and not judgment… This is not subjectivism, since to pose the problem in terms of force, and not in other terms, already surpasses all subjectivity.
Gilles Deleuze, 1997: 135. Essays Critical and Clinical. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Â
