Georges Didi-Huberman quotes
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“The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.”
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“Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.”
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“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”
-- Georges Didi-HubermanSource : Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press
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“Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?”
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Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.
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“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”
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“There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.”
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“Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.”
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