The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I … - Christian Boltanski

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Christian Boltanski

The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely true) that the artist is like someone carrying a mirror in which everyone can look and recognize themselves, so that the person who carries the mirror ends up being nothing.

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Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

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We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

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The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

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I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.

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In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.

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