Siegfried Kracauer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Beautiful #Real #Sunday
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Memories #Powerful #Mean
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Reality #World #Clutch
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Deeds #Apparitions #Wander
The photograph annihilates the person.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Photograph #Persons
Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Wind #Ideas #Void
A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

#Running #Moments #Photograph

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau
I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991
How did you . . . pass the time?â€™ Sunday asked. â€˜You couldnâ€™t just ching out of it, could you?â€™ â€˜We had a different form of chinging,â€™ Eunice said. â€˜An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it â€œreadingâ€.
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

Siegfried Kracauer famous quotes

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