Basem Essam

“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
― Robert Bresson

“Every movement reveals us.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays