some random quotations because I’m tidying my blog and removing the page where they were.
About places
« A permanent déjà vu »
Wim Wenders, on travelling across America.
“A traveller wants to immerse in a place.”
Wim Wenders, describing a traveller as opposed to a tourist.
“Those are like graves, house-graves.”
Alice in Wim Wenders’ “Alice in the cities”, looking at plots where old buildings have been demolished.
Various
«The only place you can find beauty is where its persecutors have overlooked it. The uglification of the world, it’s a planetary process. »
Sabina in Philip Kauffman’s movie version of Milan Kundera’s “The unbearable lightness of being”.
“I believe that the artist doesn’t know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.” Marcel Duchamp