" Inasmuch as there is figure, there is also inarticulate background, inasmuch as we have being (figure), we don't have it, and inasmuch as we don't have it (background), inasmuch as we let it be without thinking about it, that's when we have it. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Sensible World and the World of Expression: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953