The Infinity of Lists Quotes

“There is [a] mode of artistic representation, one where we do not know the boundaries of what we wish to portray, where we do not know how many things we are talking about and presume their number to be, if not infinite, then at least astronomically large.... And so, to be able to talk about it, to make it comprehensible or in some way perceivable, we list its properties.”
― Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists