The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of a...ny man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein... Berliner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another..., always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard.... The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our ...own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the... statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »