Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
Walter BenjaminHe who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter BenjaminArt teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Walter Benjamin