[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!
Walter BenjaminThe good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
Walter BenjaminNot to find oneโs way around a city does not mean much. But to lose oneโs way in a city, as one loses oneโs way in a forest, requires some schooling.
Walter BenjaminWork on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin