What did Walter Benjamin mean by: Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things. Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany Copy
+ The work of memory collapses time. Author, October 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Memory, Perception, Time, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
+ The distracted person, too, can form habits. Author, October 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Distraction, Formation, Habits, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
+ Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Author, September 12, 2023January 2, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Creativity, Inspiration, Perseverance, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
+ Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. Author, July 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Balance, Order, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Education, Future, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
+ Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Contradiction, History, Progress, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walter Benjamin, Creativity, Innovation, Transformation, 0 Walter Benjamin Philosopher and cultural critic · Germany
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
