" There is a paradox of immanence and transcendence in perception. Immanence, because the perceived object cannot be foreign to him who perceives; transcendence, because it always contains something more than what is actually given. And these two elements of perception are not, properly speaking, contradictory. For if we reflect on this
notion of perspective, if we reproduce the perceptual experience in our thought, we see that the kind of evidence proper to the perceived, the
appearance of "something," requires both this presence and this absence. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics