The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures. Christian Boltanski More Quotes by Christian Boltanski More Quotes From Christian Boltanski ... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is] becoming like one of those painted backdrops that photographers use in their studio. Christian Boltanski eye home reality The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say. Christian Boltanski education believe art I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly. Christian Boltanski artistic stupid thinking You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. Christian Boltanski different parent would-be
