Mechanical Reproduction Emancipates The Work Of Art

To Perceive The Aura Of An Object We Look At Means To Invest It With The Ability To Look At Us In Return.

You Could Tell A Lot About A Man By The Books He Keeps - His Tastes, His Interest, His Habits.

Gifts Must Affect The Receiver To The Point Of Shock.

Even The Most Perfect Reproduction Of A Work Of Art Is Lacking In One Element: Its Presence In Time And Space, Its Unique Existence At The Place Where It Happens To Be.

The Fairy Tale, Which To This Day Is The First Tutor Of Children Because It Was Once The First Tutor Of Mankind, Secretly Lives On In The Story. The First True Storyteller Is, And Will Continue To Be, The Teller Of Fairy Tales. Whenever Good Counsel Was At A Premium, The Fairy Tale Had It, And Where The Need Was Greatest, Its Aid Was Nearest. This Need Was Created By Myth. The Fairy Tale Tells Us Of The Earliest Arrangements That Mankind Made To Shake Off The Nightmare Which Myth Had Placed Upon Its Chest.