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Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside
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Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside
This web-based work is inspired by the Internet culture production of image-macros with quotations, and specially by the practice of "troll quotes," which misattribute all 3 elements of the image (photograph, quotation and author).
On each click by the user, this work generates a new quotation image-macro by random association among these 3 elements.
The title of the work is taken from a sentence by Walter Benjamin.
According to Know Your Meme site:
- "Troll quotes are image macros that feature a quote from a popular movie or TV show and attribute the quote to a character in another popular movie or TV show. Often the background image will come from a third unrelated pop culture source. These images are created in order to annoy or troll members of all the involved fandoms who will quickly identify the obviously incorrect attribution."
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<title>Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside - Lucas Battich</title>
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"The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature.",
"If the modernists felt tradition to be an oppressive burden, we are likely to feel it as an unbearable lightness of being.",
"To quote is to name, and naming rather than speaking, the word rather than the sentence, brings truth to light.",
"All literary works are confined to the indefinite murmur of words.",
"Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve an idler of his convictions.",
"There is no doctrine that one could absorb, no knowledge that one could preserve.",
"Seeing is when you forget the name of what you are looking at.",
"The decision about the finality of the ending is itself never final.",
"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from the contrast and very little from a state of things.",
"Nostalgia inevitably appears as a defence mechanism in a time of accelerated rhythms of life and historical upheavals.",
"Everything lies open to view.",
"Our historical consciousness is always filled with a multiplicity of voices that echo the past.",
"It takes two to make an image.",
"One mark of an originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is a strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.",
"Tradition is not only a handing-down or process of benign transmission; it is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration, in which the prize is literary survival or canonical inclusion.",
"I refuse to inherit anything from another eye than my own.",
"Art is a game between all people of all periods.",
"With serial imagery the masterpiece concept is abandoned.",
"Canons, which negate the distinction between knowledge and opinion, which are the instruments of survival built to be time-proof, not reason-proof, are of course desconstructible; if people think there should not be such things, they may very well find the means to destroy them.",
"The job of the artist is not to destroy but to change the value of things.",
"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.",
"Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the right idea.",
"I will leave no memoirs.",
"To name an object is to sacrifice three-quarters of that enjoyment of the poem, which comes from the pleasure of guessing bit by bit. To suggest it – that is our dream.",
"Only by self-consciousness being roused to revolt does it know its own peculiar torn and shattered condition; and in its knowing that it has ipso facto risen above that condition.",
"Individual parts of a system are not in themselves important but are relevant only in the way they are used in the enclosed logic of the whole.",
"Because the sign is arbitrary, it follows no law other than that of tradition, and because it is based on tradition, it is arbitrary.",
"The authority not only of the authenticity of the instincts, of the economy, of the author, have been unfixed, but the notion of authenticity itself, the language of authentic inwardness, has been put into question.",
"He who lets concepts, opinions, past events, books, step between himself and things – he, that is to say, who is in the broadest sense born for history – will never have an immediate perception of things and will never be an immediately perceived thing himself.",
"While each individual word has its own integrity, you can put them together to create very different paragraphs. And it’s that paragraph I claim authorship of.",
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.",
"The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.",
"Every painting now belongs within the squared and massive surface of painting, and all literary works are confined to the indefinite murmur of words.",
"To articulate the past historically means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.",
"A historiography could be imagined which had in it not a drop of common empirical truth and yet could lay claim to the highest degree of objectivity.",
"Only if history can endure to be transformed into a work of art will it perhaps be able to preserve instincts or even evoke them.",
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.",
"Life itself is a quotation.",
"It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.",
"Internet art is a prime location for people of constantly ironic dispositions.",
"Radical breaks between periods do not generally involve complete changes but rather the restructuration of a certain number of elements already given.",
"Our age is not far from perceiving the beauty of systems.",
"The more intensively the work of art destroys rational objective logic, the greater the possibilities of artistic form.",
"Artists and art theoreticians alike are glad to be free at last from the burden of history, from the necessity to take the next step, and from the obligation to conform to the historical laws and requirements of that which is historically new.",
"May the overthrow of the old world of art be penciled on your palms.",
"Somewhere in the depths of intuition lie accurate laws and concepts which in our imperfection we can hardly refute.",
"The artist should know what, and why, things happen in his pictures.",
"It is always possible for a text to become new, since the blanks open up its structures to an indefinitely disseminated transformation.",
"The dead seize the living.",
"The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective mythology, to revisit time as space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition.",
"Questions of originality and authorship are no longer the point; instead, the emphasis is on a meaningful recontextualization of existing artefacts."];
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