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“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make sense or comment on it through the presentation of ideas that had no functional purpose other than themselves.”
― What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
― What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
“Cette histoire est vraie puisque je l'ai inventée.”
― L'écume des jours
― L'écume des jours
“Our cooking depends upon shadows and is inseparable from darkness”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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