"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally……" — Guy Debord
"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."
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38 Quotes by Guy Debord
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
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The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish…
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to…
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
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What appears is good; what is good appears.
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead…
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved…
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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics,…
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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe…
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is…
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Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly…
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More Banal Quotes
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one of 91 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
— Manolo Blahnik
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
— Milton Glaser
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
— Michael Leunig
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You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why…
— Jason Calacanis
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They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ...…
— Eamon Dunphy
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is…
— Lewis Thomas
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I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
— Josef Sudek
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland,…
— John Szarkowski
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and…
— Walter Benjamin
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In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
— David Foster
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