Fine Arts

'The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.' (16)
'Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so the city can begin to exist.' (16)
'...each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up.' (29)
'...changes...give form to desires, and...desires either erase the city or are erased by it.' (30)
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.