Tobias Kaspar

The depressing thing about this city is as if the artists are more bourgeois than the bourgeoisie.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995)

How can one have an intelligent air, without thinking of anything intelligent? ...
Roland Barthes, La Chambre claire (1980), about a photo by André Kertész depicting Piet Mondrian in his studio in Paris 1926

The textureless white wall is associated with the generic man's suit organized around the «smooth white» shirt.
Mark Wigley, White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture, 2001