The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter BenjaminThe art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter BenjaminLiving substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter BenjaminWhat has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain, changing compounds, yielding a constant flow of new, strange products.
Walter Benjamin