Spatial images [Raumbilder] are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of these images can be deciphered, one finds the basis of social reality.

— Siegfried Kracauer

Never try to convey your idea to the audience — it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

— Noam Chomsky

Alweg Monorail

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

— Bob Moawad

Gropiusallee

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

— William Gibson

GDR Airforce

There is a difference between people who are smart and people who get good grades ...

Wer mich beleidigt, bestimme ich.

— Klaus Kinski

I found that every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.

— Brian Tracy

Die Kunst der Gesellschaft steht für staatliche Dienstleistungen nicht zur Verfügung. Ihre Phantasie ist einsam, häufig staatenlos oder delinquent. Kein Politiker wird sie je zum Sprechen bringen. Kunst ist das Hoheitsgebiet von Subjektivität und Erinnerung, und wenn sie glückt, schenkt sie die Erfahrung der Existenz, aber als Krise. Ihre Themen, ihr langes Gedächtnis stiften keinen wetterfesten Sinn, sondern beunruhigen den etablierten.

— Thomas Assheuer

My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams - like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

— Hermann Hesse

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People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

— Charles Bukowski

Simon Ungers, Autonomy and Dialogue, 2005

Bobby Fischer in Iceland, 1972

Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf | Deutscher Pavillon | 1958

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

— Charles Bukowski

This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions.

— Ai Weiwei

East Berlin

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

— Jean Paul Sartre

Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

— Charles Bukowski

Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

— Roger Ebert

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pyongyang

Ever more north.

— Anne Carson

Wir haben erlaubt, dass es so etwas wie Mitbestimmung in der bildenden Kunst gibt. Das war mein größter Fehler.

— Markus Lüpertz

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Ivan's Childhood; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1962

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

— Roger Ebert

Those who create their own worlds are generally the poets.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Francesca Woodman

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

— Anaïs Nin

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Kim Jong Il looking at things; by Jean Boîte Éditions