«In the end, the image burns because of memory, in other words, it continues to burn even when it is nothing but ash: another way of expressing its essential will to survive in spite of everything. But in order to grasp this, to feel it, you have to be daring, you have to put your face close to the ash.»
―Georges Didi-Huberman

"The evolution of the clichés that we have experienced until now continues to evolve, both the sacred side and the blasphemous one, for which the exact forms have not yet been determined. I do not want to propose a form. I believe we have to encourage these interrogations without being nihilistic and declaring that there is nothing sacred."
—Julia Kristeva

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
—William Faulkner

“The landscape stands there without hands or face, or else it is entirely face."
—Rainer Maria Rilke

“Any attempt at reeducation that isn’t based on research and on revolt quickly ends up smelling of soiled bedsheets or stagnant holy water. What we want for these kids is to teach them how to live, not how to die. To help them, not to love them.”
―Fernand Deligny

“Let each impression and each kernel of feeling come to fruition in you, in the darkness, in the unspeakable, in the unconscious, where intelligence itself cannot reach and let them wait, with deep humility and patience, for the hour in which a new clarity is born.”
―Rainer Maria Rilke