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V.T. Davy
“People like to be shown around archives. I don鈥檛 know why. I鈥檓 in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files looks much like another.”
V.T. Davy, Black Art

Anne Rice
“Everyone today has a story; the world鈥檚 an archive.”
Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift

Sara Sheridan
“Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.”
Sara Sheridan

“It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too.”
Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

Gesualdo Bufalino
“(...) compor meticulosamente o cadastro afetivo e o retrato fant谩stico-hist贸rico de uma comunidade e de uma de suas remotas jornadas de meio s茅culo atras. E isso n茫o com os instrumentos racionais, a ficha, o documento, o testemunho, caros ao arque贸logo do cotidiano, mas por meio de um sortil茅gio espont芒neo de silhuetas que se esvaziaram gradativamente, uma depois da outra, numa parede: relic谩rio de epifanias moment芒neas, cinema de larvas dispersas; o insuficiente butim de um aprendiz de No茅 que, depois do diluvio, para n茫o esquecer o mundo, andasse a vasculhar os fosseis soterrados na areia (...)”
Gesualdo Bufalino, Museo d'ombre

“We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.”
J. A. de (Jean Andr茅) Luc

Arthur C. Clarke
“Since the first satellites had been orbited, almost fifty years earlier, trillions and quadrillions of pulses of information had been pouring down from space, to be stored against the day when they might contribute to the advance of knowledge. Only a minute fraction of all this raw material would ever be processed; but there was no way of telling what observation some scientist might wish to consult, ten, or fifty, or a hundred years from now. So everything had to be kept on file, stacked in endless airconditioned galleries, triplicated at the [data] centers against the possibility of accidental loss. It was part of the real treasure of mankind, more valuable than all the gold locked uselessly away in bank vaults.”
Arthur C. Clarke

Akira Mizuta Lippit
“A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination.”
Akira Mizuta Lippit, Atomic Light

“Victoria Lane: What hints or tips would you give for other artists who are starting a negotiation with an institution for their archive?

Barbara Stevini: I would tell them they need to work out what would they like their archive to do and for whom. It's actually the same questions I would ask when going into any institution or doing a placement - what is the context? What is the motivation I have for a placement there? What is the motivation of that hosting organisation to receive it? Is there any fusion of appropriately motivated endeavor from which something can happen from the placement of an archive here, for both parties concerned? I think those questions to be asked about doing anything at all, otherwise you're contaminating the planet aren't you?”
Victoria Lane, All this Stuff: Archiving the Artist

Akash Lakhotia
“The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.”
Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

“Why are you so scared and creeping around,
taking photographs all over town,
pictures in the dark that live in the light,
the world is my playground too and I鈥檒l do what I like.”
Archive

“There are times when one is with their camera that beautiful and magical things will come into view. Do not let them slip by for they must be shared with the now and tomorrow.”
Christopher Paul Flateau

“Archive as if the future depends on it.”
Lisbet Tellefsen, archivist

Radovan Kavick媒
“Most of the politicians don't really understand that politics is not a marathon, but more like a hurdle relay race were the baton needs to be passed in order to achieve the win for the team.”
Radovan Kavick媒