Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss

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.

Photography

Snapshots

Vision

[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 or of their ultimate destination.…

Home

Thinking

Tired

All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York.

Humanity

New York

Treasure

Animals are good to think with.

Animal

Dog Lover

Thinking

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Ideas

Past

Race

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.

Feelings

Finals

Sorrow

I am the place in which something has occurred.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Conviction

Intellectual

Poverty

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity… From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

Book

Land

Order

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Groups

Men

Science

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Analysis

Animal

Bitter

Block

Book

Brain

Burning

Cameras

Century

Children

Conviction

Country

Dog Lover

Doubt

Economy

Effectiveness

Fall

Fashion

Feelings

Finals

Firsts

Giving

Groups

Hands

Home

Humanity

Ice

Ideas

Intellectual

Juice

Knowing Nothing

Knowledge

Land

Language

Logic

Loss

Men

Morning

Music

Musical

Musician

Natural

New York

Order

Past

People

Photography

Police

Poverty

Punishment

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Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss

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.

All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York.

Animals are good to think with.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

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.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

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