All the essentials of
All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York. Claude Levi-Strauss
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All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York. Claude Levi-Strauss
[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port … Read more
I hate travelling and explorers Claude Levi-Strauss
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time. Claude Levi-Strauss
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. Claude Levi-Strauss
There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing Claude Levi-Strauss
I can’t help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use. Claude Levi-Strauss
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . . Claude Levi-Strauss
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world… As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it. Claude Levi-Strauss
Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be … Read more