Echoes

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.”

“La naissance du lecteur doit se payer de la mort de l'Auteur.”

“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”

“Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit verliert seine Aura.”

“The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction loses its aura.”

“Il ne faut pas toujours croire que le sentiment soit tout. Dans les arts, ce n'est rien sans la forme.”

“One must not always think that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”

“우리가 책을 읽는 이유는 우리가 혼자가 아니라는 것을 알기 위해서다.”

“The reason we read is to know that we are not alone.”

“Tout ce qui n’est pas moi m’est incompréhensible.”

“Everything that is not me is incomprehensible to me.”

“Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas.”

“Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.”

“You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.”

“Vi fick se skönhetens ansikte. Det var en del av förrädarens ansikte.”

“We got a look at beauty's face. It was part of the face of a traitor.”

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

“Please open the curtains.”

“The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

“Exister, c'est protester sans le savoir. Toute forme de vie comporte un excès de force, d'expansion; être n'est que violation de ce qui nous entoure.”

“To exist is to protest without knowing it. Every form of life involves an excess of force, of expansion; being is nothing but violation of what surrounds it.”

“Всё так хрупко. Ты идёшь на войну, и первое, что теряешь, — это язык. Слова больше не работают. Для того, что там происходит, нет слов.”

“Everything is so fragile. You go to war, and the first thing you lose is language — the words don't work anymore. There are no words for what happens there.”

“一个人只拥有此生此世是不够的，他还应该拥有诗意的世界。”

“Having only this life and this world is not enough; one should also have a poetic world.”

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”

“I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.”

“All art is erotic.”

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.”

“Hvis du tænker på en gotisk kirke, er du tæt på, hvad jeg mener.”

“If you think of a Gothic church, you are close to what I mean. The roof sails up, and where you expect walls you find light. The platform is the earth, the roof is the sky, and between them is the space where human life takes place — open, luminous, free.”

“The real core of my work is the way materials interact with each other, how they meet and what happens in between.”

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.”

“I don't know how to take photographs. I just know how to see.”

“Complicare è facile, semplificare è difficile.”

“Complicating is easy, simplifying is hard.”

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

“Les modes passent, le style est éternel.”

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”

“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”

“Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable. There is a vastness to grief that overwhelms our minuscule selves. We are tiny, trembling clusters of atoms subsumed within grief's awesome presence.”

“Rien ne distingue les souvenirs des autres moments: ce n'est que plus tard qu'ils se font reconnaître, à leurs cicatrices.”

“Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance, on account of their scars. That face which just appeared in the viewfinder — was it already a memory when I saw it, or did it become one only now that I recall it?”

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

“人間の表面だけを撮ろうとしているが、その表面の最も深い層には、かなり普遍的なものがある。”

“I try to depict only the surface of human beings. But in the deepest layer of that surface is something quite universal.”

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

“Ultimately, we must each find our own way, and that is the existential challenge of life.”

“Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”

“The stream of thinking is not a chain of discrete ideas, but a continuous flow in which every image, feeling, and thought melts into the next. Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits; it flows.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected.”

“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”

“La féodalité ne fut pas seulement une forme de gouvernement, ni même un type d'organisation sociale au sens étroit. Elle fut une civilisation.”

“The feudal system was not merely a form of government, nor even a type of social organization in the narrow sense. It was a civilization — a particular way of thinking and feeling, a particular attitude toward the world.”

“superstites eramus; exemptis cum maxime viris, cum tot optimorum exiliis.”

“Even after an age of destruction and violence, a few survivors may remain; but they will be men who have outlived their own freedom.”

“κτῆμά τε ἐς αἰεὶ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀγώνισμα ἐς τὸ παραχρῆμα ἀκούειν ξύγκειται.”

“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever.”

“The Hiding Hand principle suggests that ignorance of the difficulties ahead can be a blessing in disguise — people start projects they would never have begun had they known the full cost, and then find creative ways to overcome the unexpected obstacles.”

“To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.”

“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”