Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
The work of memory collapses time.
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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