Echoes

“Je fais, défais et refais mes concepts à partir d'un horizon mouvant, d'un centre toujours décentré, d'une périphérie toujours déplacée qui les répète et les différencie.”

“I make, remake and unmake my concepts along a moving horizon, from an always decentered center, from an always displaced periphery which repeats and differentiates them.”

“Il campo è lo spazio che si apre quando lo stato di eccezione comincia a diventare la regola.”

“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule. In the camp, the state of exception, which was essentially a temporary suspension of the rule of law on the basis of a factual state of danger, is now given a permanent spatial arrangement.”

“Die Kulturindustrie geht weniger auf die Reaktionen ihrer Kunden ein, als daß sie diese fälscht. Sie drillt sie, indem sie sich aufführt, als sei sie selbst der Kunde.”

“The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. It drills them by behaving as though it were itself the customer.”

“Как тёплому понять холодного?”

“How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / ché la diritta via era smarrita.”

“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

“La soledad es el hecho más profundo de la condición humana.”

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

“Così è (se vi pare).”

“It is so, if you think so.”

“The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

“Je ne comprends pas; je m'arrête; j'examine.”

“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”

“一个人至少拥有一个梦想，有一个理由去坚强。心若没有栖息的地方，到哪里都是在流浪。”

“A person must have at least one dream, one reason to be strong. If the heart has no place to rest, wherever you go is wandering.”

“一个人只拥有此生此世是不够的，他还应该拥有诗意的世界。”

“Having only this life and this world is not enough; one should also have a poetic world.”

“What this country needs — what every country needs occasionally — is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

“You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas pa' volar?”

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”

“Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet.”

“The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated. Duchamp's gesture of withdrawal was aristocratic — a refusal to engage with the world. I propose the opposite: total engagement. Art must enter the street, the factory, the parliament, the school.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding, but you forget — you are just looking so much.”

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”

“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”

“Don't try to be original, just try to be good.”

“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt or in front of a piece of graphic design.”

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“We are stardust, we are golden, / And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden.”

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.”

“To be an artist means to search for, find, and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

“我觉得电影不应该解释自己。人们需要自己去探索、去感受它在讲什么。”

“I feel that a movie shouldn't explain itself. People have to search, to feel what it's about.”

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

“Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”

“La tyrannie de la majorité est un danger toujours présent dans les démocraties.”

“The tyranny of the majority is an ever-present danger in democracies, and it is especially threatening to individual liberty because it operates not through the force of law but through the force of opinion.”

“La Méditerranée parle de mille voix; elle est une somme d'histoires individuelles.”

“The Mediterranean speaks with many voices; it is a sum of individual histories.”

“前事不忘，后事之师。”

“Those who look to the past will find a guide for the future.”

“Marx, however much he may have been wrong in detail, understood the nature of capitalism better than anyone else. His central theme — that private property in the means of production is a social relation, not a natural fact — remains as valid as ever.”

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

“The entrepreneur is essentially a man of action, driven not by hedonistic motives but by the dream and the will to found a private kingdom, the will to conquer, and the joy of creating.”

“Мы не хотим завоёвывать космос, мы просто хотим расширить границы Земли до пределов космоса. Нам не нужны другие миры. Нам нужны зеркала.”

“We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.”

“Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive.”

“Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning.”