“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 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 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

“The anti-colonial imagination isn’t a subjective reaction to colonial futurisms, it is anti-settler future. Our life cycles are not linear, our future exists without time. It is a dream, uncolonized.”
―Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto

"The modern proletarian class does not carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers’ struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight."
—Rosa Luxemburgo

"We were members of the post-war generation, overwhelmingly alienated from our parents and the lives they were leading . . . All we knew was that the past was war and misery; the present was restrictive; and the future needed to be different."
―Terry Wragg

"The fashion photo becomes applied art."
―Peter Knapp, art director of ELLE

In the former headquarters of the publishing house Gustavo Gili (Rosselló, 87)

"I have spoken about the moments of patient gathering and grouping of fragments of the city, of traces of the deepest collective heritage, scattered and truncated yet contained in the smallest stone. And it will never be possible to bury every small stone."
—Álvaro Siza Vieira

"At every moment in time, next to the things it seems natural to do and say, and next to the ones we’re told to think—no less by books or ads in the métro than by funny stories—are other things that society hushes up without knowing it is doing so. Thus it condemns to lonely suffering all the people who feel but cannot name these things."
—Annie Ernaux