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WORK from the ZORAH SOMEXKI collection / 

8 topics / 73 subjects /

1 / CURIOSITY / FANTASY / the night /

2 / IDENTITY /

3 / PHILOSOPHY / PHOTOGRAPHY /

4 / SOCIETY / TIME /

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Marcel Proust / It is wrong to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers that inspire them. You can be afraid not to sleep and not of a serious duel, a rat and not a lion.

Marcel Proust / The memory of a certain image is only the regret of a certain moment.

Simone De Beauvoir / Disguised as a red hood, carrying in my basket cake and butter pot, I felt more interesting than an infant nailed in his cradle.

Cocteau / The artists, I will make them up, dress them, smear them, tear them up until they look like they should be in a tale where the dirty is not dirty, where, according to Goethe's words, truth and reality contradict each other.

Serendipity is the ability to discover, invent or create what was not sought in science, technology, art, politics and everyday life, through surprising observation.

Woody Allen / I am amazed by the number of people who want to "know" the universe when it is already difficult enough to find their way around New York's Chinatown.

Vladimir Nabocov / The more attention we pay to coincidences, the more they occur.

Camille Claudel / It seems to me that I am so far from you! And that I am a complete stranger to you! There is always something missing that torments me. Letter to Auguste Rodin, August 1886

Letter from Rodin to Camille Claudel / (...) how much pain I am in, and how great my fault was; but I feel that when I saw you, there was a fatality that I could not escape.

STORies OF POINT OF VIEW / PHOTOGRAPHERS /

SOMEXKI collection / ED ZITTHER / GHABOR COLLECTION /

Diane Arbus / What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin and into someone else's.

Giorio Vasari / Botticelli showed the concentration, the acute subtlety that is that of the intellectuals constantly absorbed by the reflection on the highest and most difficult ideas.

The invention of perspective in Florence and its success in Florentine painting from 1420 onwards quickly had a political, ideological and philosophical dimension

Henri Bergson / What constitutes animality... is the ability to use a trigger mechanism to convert as much accumulated potential energy as possible into "explosive" actions.

Homer / The Odyssey, XIV / I call him my great friend, although he is far from me.

No voyeur, abstain

Voltaire / It is the nature of violent censorship to accredit the opinions it attacks.