Happy new year

Spike Jonze, “Being John Malkovich”, 1999

Ciao dears,
first post of 2008.

My first contribution to this blog, is a short collection of quotes useful to our project.
I love to collect quotes, just for their pure beauty. Sometimes (like now), they become pretty handy...

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
G. Orwell

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
E. H. Gombrich

The artist (the designer) overcomes tedium by the invention of new formal combinations and by more daring advances in previously established directions. These advances obey a rule of gradual differentiation because they must remain as recognizable variations upon the dominant memory image. The differentiatons are bolder among young designers and their tempo becomes more rapid as a style approaches its end. If a style is interrupted early for any reason, its unused resources become available for adaptation by participants in other styles.
G. Kubler

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
W. Benjamin