Madeleine

“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
― Jacques Lacan

“To photograph people is to violate them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
― Jacques Lacan