Situationist International Anthology Quotes

“Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed.”
― Ken Knabb, Situationist International Anthology

“The direct transfer of artistic gifts is impossible; artistic adaptation takes place through a series of contradictory phases: Shock — Wonder — Imitation — Rejection — Experimentation — Possession.”
― Ken Knabb, Situationist International Anthology

“Freud had also ended up discovering this when he wrote: “Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable. But once it is freed, it too falls to ruin.”
― Ken Knabb, Situationist International Anthology