Walter Benjamin Quote

The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed drudgery of their contemporaries. There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.


Edward Fuchs: Collector and Historian (1937)


The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed...

The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed...

The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed...

The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed...