12 Quotes by Walter Benjamin about art

  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

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    Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

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    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.

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