Georges Didi-Huberman Quotes
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I feel as if I spent my childhood in a world of images, basically in a world cut off from action.
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To talk about “the image” is to think metaphysically, whatever you do.
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Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?
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Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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In the face of every image we have to choose whether, or how, to make it participate in our knowledge and action. We can accept or reject this or that image; take it as a consoling object or as a worrying object; make it ask questions or use it as a ready-made response.
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We must know how to look into images to see that of which they are survivors. So that history, liberated from the pure past (that absolute, that abstraction), might help us to open the present of time.
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The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.