Mieke Bal > Quotes

“For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.”
― Mieke Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition

“Motivation is, then, both another narrative aspect of collecting and its intrinsically ungraspable beginning.”
― Mieke Bal, The Cultures of Collecting