375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.