SIMONE WEIL

"Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it."

- Simone Weil


Source: Simone Weil quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

FRIEDERICH NIETZCHE

"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphism: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical and binding. Tuths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions, they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins"

- Friederich Nietzsche


Source: Friedrich Nietzsche quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

GILLES DELEUZE

"Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think"

- Gilles Deleuze


Source: Gilles Deleuze quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

WILLIAM MORRIS

"You can't have art without resistance in the material."

- William Morris


Source: William Morris quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

WALTER BENJAMIN

"I need say nothing. Only Show. I won't filch anything of value or approximate any ingenious turns of phrase. Only the trivia, the trah - which I don't want to inventory, but simply allow it to come into its own in the ony way possible, by putting it to use."

- Walter Benjamin


Source: Walter Benjamin quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

PAUL KLEE

"This is due to particularly to the local limitations of the eye. The eye can not be in the whole field of the pictorial work at the same time, but rather always only in a part. It stands itself before a relatively small picture board, before the task has been posed, like a grazing animal. It must enter into movement because it can't see everything at once""

- Paul Klee


Source: Paul Klee quoted in: Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

PAUL VALERY

"In order of the mental things, here seems to be certain mysterious relations between the desire and the event. That is because the mind when reduced to its own sole substance does not have the power to finish, and absolutely cannot bind itself by itself."

- Paul Valéry


Source: Paul Valéry quoted in Kosuth, Joseph. The Mind's Image of Itself. 2011. Frieze , issue 141, september 2011. pp. 149-157. 

LARS VON TRIER

"Dimensions, ladies and gentlemen, do matter. Everything can be described in numbers, metres and microns. Too many numbers, or too few, and we must purge or add more. Far more often than you'd think, perhaps we chose our own numbers. Little Brother grew big, the sarcoma grew big. People are legion, and when they gaze up at the stars they may be tempted to call themselves "small". In reality we'd be far closer to the truth if we said that none of it actually existed. Compared to the universe the sarcoma, Little Brother, and the Kingdom are neither great nor small. Their aspirations, their stories and their pain are insignificant. If three people die in an aeroplane or a thousand of our worlds vanish in a flash of light it won't make the man in the moon across the galaxy bat an eyelid. That's how it is, and a good thing too. My name is Lars Von Trier and I wish you all a really good evening."

- From Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom (1997)

Source: Lars Von Trier. 1977. Riget II (English: The Kingdom). Day 7: Gargantua.

"Gentlemen talk of the Age of Chivalry but remember the ploughmen, poachers and pickpockets they lead. It is with these sad instruments great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world"

- From Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

Source: Barry Lyndon Transcript. Available from URL http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/barry-lyndon-script-transcript-kubrick.html [Downloaded 26.01.2011].

"It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair. It is a different thing to see it first hand"

- From Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

Source: Barry Lyndon Transcript. Available from URL http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/barry-lyndon-script-transcript-kubrick.html [Downloaded 26.01.2011].

"Dry bones can harm no one"

- T.S. Eliot. Waste Land (1922)

Source: Eliot, T.S. Waste Land. 1922. Available from URL http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ [Downloaded 25.01.2011].

"He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience"

- T.S. Eliot. Waste Land (1922)

Source: Eliot, T.S. Waste Land. 1922. Available from URL http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ [Downloaded 25.01.2011].

"So long, Marcel. Well, that's over. It has been a truism of the past 100 years, since marcel Duchamp re-presented an everyday object as a work of art, that the most interesting, the most relevant, the most advanced art grappled with its place in the world and as a part of that world, whether on the level of intention or consumption. 2010 was the year when the most visible, talked about, written of, bought and sold contemporary art took flight from the viscissitudes of the everyday, and definitely separated itself from the urgencies of life on this planet."

- Laura Hoptman, curator in the Department of Painting and Drawings, MoMa, New York, U.S.A, quoted in Frieze Art Magazine.

Source: Laura Hoptman in Looking Back/Looking Forward. Frieze. Issue 136, january-February 2011. p. 89.

"I think one of the things that showed the people of the world was that even if there is a great catastrophe, good leadership and teamwork, initiative and perseverance - these things make for getting an almost certain catastrophe into a successful recovery."


- Jim Lovell, NASA-astronaut and commander of Apollo 13


Source: Rincon, Paul. Apollo 1: From Disaster to triumph. BBC online. Available from URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8613766.stm [Downloaded 11.01.10].  

"And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out my memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. In a way, it was an advantage."

- Meursault, in Camus' The Stranger, Part 2, ch.2 

Source: Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Downloaded [2011-01-06] from Allgreatquotes.com URL: http://www.allgreatquotes.com/the_stranger_quotes_the_outsider.shtml