"Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)"

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Source : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.179, MIT Press

Martha Rosler

#Leaving Quotes #Littles Quotes #Faces Quotes

“But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.170, Macmillan
“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.”

Source : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.
“Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.”
“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”
“Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.”
“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”

Source : "Poetry Black, Poetry White". Fontaine (Paris), No. 19-20, March/April 1942.
“All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.”
“I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.”

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